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Reddit Says 80% of Top Forums Online After Days of API Protest

bloomberg.com

20 pointsmfiguiere6 comments

Reddit is already threatening to replace mods who continue with the protest. Expect them to replace the existing mods with "friendly" ones and "re open" the subs, then claim they're back to normal.

> and that the fees it would charge developers were in line with its own costs.

To me, this reads as Reddit's costs being extremely inefficient on the backend.

Kind of wonder if there's some stuff there that should have been consolidated/optimised a bunch and they've just not done it.

As of right now it reddark 247 twitch stream says 56% is still dark: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

https://archive.ph/VA6pI

Edit: It looks like a couple paragraphs are still left out. Can someone with a Bloomberg account confirm?

The web.archive.org one isn't much better, having it's own problems:

http://web.archive.org/web/20230616005730/https://www.bloomb...

That one seems to have the complete article content, but a few seconds after loading the page a middle-of-the-screen dialog appears saying:

    Before we continue...

    Press & Hold to confirm you are
    a human (and not a bot).

That dialog doesn't function properly, so doesn't go away. :/

/r/Apple should announce that they are lifting the blackout, but from here on out the community will focus on posting pictures of apple fruits with smile faces painted on top.

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