Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/
In conversation with a few others? At the prices they were talking about no one will use it. It was something like hundreds of dollars per year per user to reddit.
They are happy to make concessions for the 3PAs that are providing something they need and can’t replace right now. But be certain that those 3PAs will be killed off the very moment they’re no longer needed.
Which 3PAs are those?
Absolutely. This is a power grab and nothing more. They will come for those apps next.
I was trying to stress the importance of this to a friend but he doesn’t mind using the official Reddit app. I told him that they’re coming for old reddit.com next and he got quiet. It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when.
I thought the others had managed to stay in the free tier if API usage or something
100 daily api calls or something. Thats nothing
That’s less than 1 users worth…
Will they be able to stay in the free tier if they absorb users migrating from Apollo, Sync, RIF, etc.?