What Is This All About?
A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.
On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API - from being free to a level that is unsustainable to popular apps such as , , , and .
Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this has an impact that could be detrimental to all of us - including the loss of popular mod tools that help prevent spam and predatory behavior, bots that help both mods and users by automating common tasks, and labour of love resources such as Reveddit that allows everyone to audit mod actions and removals.
Our Plans:
would like to join the who have already declared they are going dark in protest of these changes. As a personal long time user of Apollo I would be very disappointed if it were forced to shut down because Reddit made the API fee's unaffordable. While I have my doubts at what a 48-hour protest can achieve I do believe that if enough subreddits participate it will send a message to those who run Reddit, and by us participating it will only emphasise that message.
However, it is not up to us mods, it is up to you, the users of this community who create the content and interact with it. Without you this sub would be nothing and we thank you for that. So we leave the decision to you and we will honour what the outcome is.