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Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by TheUndead96 »

edandersen wrote: post #10
Silhouette wrote: post #7

I expect they are going to exempt a lot more than that. I have lost count of how many of the useful subreddits I belong to have already committed to going dark next week but it's a lot of them. This was a terrible judgement on Reddit's part and some kind of mea culpa from a higher-up followed by a rapid climb down looks inevitable if they don't want to be the next Twitter.

Why doesn't Reddit just disable the ability to "go dark"?

It would look even worse on their part, and there will probably still be a lot of people boycotting Reddit by their own volition regardless of how the site operates.

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by robinduckett »

edandersen wrote: post #10
Silhouette wrote: post #7

I expect they are going to exempt a lot more than that. I have lost count of how many of the useful subreddits I belong to have already committed to going dark next week but it's a lot of them. This was a terrible judgement on Reddit's part and some kind of mea culpa from a higher-up followed by a rapid climb down looks inevitable if they don't want to be the next Twitter.

Why doesn't Reddit just disable the ability to "go dark"?

Well the moderators could just strike in protest? Which would probably cause more issues

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by [deleted] »

edandersen wrote: post #10
Silhouette wrote: post #7

I expect they are going to exempt a lot more than that. I have lost count of how many of the useful subreddits I belong to have already committed to going dark next week but it's a lot of them. This was a terrible judgement on Reddit's part and some kind of mea culpa from a higher-up followed by a rapid climb down looks inevitable if they don't want to be the next Twitter.

Why doesn't Reddit just disable the ability to "go dark"?

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Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by treme »

edandersen wrote: post #10
Silhouette wrote: post #7

I expect they are going to exempt a lot more than that. I have lost count of how many of the useful subreddits I belong to have already committed to going dark next week but it's a lot of them. This was a terrible judgement on Reddit's part and some kind of mea culpa from a higher-up followed by a rapid climb down looks inevitable if they don't want to be the next Twitter.

Why doesn't Reddit just disable the ability to "go dark"?

because they depend on free labors of people that are going dark for their business to function

Re: Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes

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Post by bastawhiz »

edandersen wrote: post #10
Silhouette wrote: post #7

I expect they are going to exempt a lot more than that. I have lost count of how many of the useful subreddits I belong to have already committed to going dark next week but it's a lot of them. This was a terrible judgement on Reddit's part and some kind of mea culpa from a higher-up followed by a rapid climb down looks inevitable if they don't want to be the next Twitter.

Why doesn't Reddit just disable the ability to "go dark"?

The feature that mods are using is setting the subreddits to "private" (with no approved members). Disabling the ability to do this will break that function for people who use it, or look really petty.
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