Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only by antman

Hello, /r/Pics subscribers! Boy, what a whacky time we’ve all had lately, huh? Reddit decided to kill off third-party applications, a protest got planned (and possibly exploited by bad actors), the site showed up in the news, various communities started opening back up, others decided to stay inaccessible, and then the CEO of Reddit implied

ByHackTechJune 17, 20231Comment

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Redditors, in defense of Reddit, destroy Reddit by activiation

Anger over an astronomical increase in Reddit’s API prices [prev.] boiled over this week as multiple third-party app developers were forced to close down, with one — Apollo dev Christian Selig — posting a scathing exposé detailing the company’s shady dealings… including a recorded phone call disproving CEO Steve “spez” Huffman’s claim that Selig blackmailed

ByHackTechJune 12, 20230Comments

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Reddit goes down fully as thousands of subreddits protest API changes by mikece

Yesterday we saw the iPhone subreddit kick off the planned protest early that wants Reddit to reconsider its API changes. Today thousands of subreddits have also gone dark, joining the cause. In what may be related to the number of non-functional subreddits, it appears Reddit’s whole platform is now down. Update 8:50 am PT: We’re

ByHackTechJune 12, 20230Comments

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Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest by minimaxir

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/r/ProgrammerHumor will shut down as part of Reddit Protest by dpcx

Not everybody understands the humor of programmers. Filters All posts No memes Just memes Advanced flair No Bad UI Posts Just Bad UI Posts No instanceof Trend Just instanceof Trend Discord Rules are zero-indexed. If they do not appear zero-indexed you are asked to contact Friend Computer for recalibration. 0. Posts must make an attempt

ByHackTechJune 9, 20230Comments

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Reddit CEO has not posted or commented on Reddit for almost a year by schappim

Thanks for the question, I’ll take this one live. *I gave a longer answer in the talk, but here’s a summary: I would be lying if I said the media does not get our attention from time to time, but so do users and our own team, more often than not. We make decisions based

ByHackTechJune 9, 20230Comments

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Reddit API Update: Notes from the API Chat with Steve Huffman and Mods by MicropenisMike

Reddit staff shared the following update on a subreddit dedicated for top moderators:Public: Share it with anyone.Hello!We’re sharing notes from a discussion we had this morning between Steve (aka u/spez ) and moderators and developers from our Moderator Council, Partner Communities, and Developer community. The key action items we took away from the meeting:* We

ByHackTechJune 8, 20231Comment

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Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest by goplayoutside

As you may be aware, there is an upcoming protest[0] on June 12-14 where many subreddits[1] are going private for 48 hours in protest of reddit's API fee increase[2][3], which many expect will lead to the end of all third party apps.I moderate a few subreddits for a niche hobby, and decided to join the

ByHackTechJune 5, 20230Comments

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Reddit, eyeing IPO, will charge millions in fees for third-party API access by dryark

The Reddit logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesReddit, the 18-year-old social media and news aggregation site, is demanding developers pay thousands of dollars to directly access the company’s data and content, a move that could help pull in a more diversified source of revenue.The company, which first disclosed

ByHackTechJune 2, 20230Comments

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Reddit Releases Post Mortem for Its 3 Hour Outage Last Week by Rebles

Cute error image friends, we love them. Been a while since that was our 500 page, hasn’t it? It was cute and fun. We’ve now got our terribly overwhelmed Snoo being crushed by a pile of upvotes. Unfortunately, if you were browsing the site, or at least trying, during the afternoon of March 14th

ByHackTechMarch 22, 20230Comments

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