Battle between Reddit and users has only losers

In mid-June, thousands of Reddit communities were temporarily blacked out. Since then, smaller protests have continued to flare up in an attempt to force Reddit to adopt fairer API policies. How does this phase of the conflict between the forum platform, moderators and users unfold?

On June 12, thousands of subreddits went black; the communities were designated as private by the moderators and were de facto inaccessible to users. The battlefield is Reddit’s new API policy, which takes effect on July 1. Third-party apps use the API to, for example, offer their own browser for the forums. Until now this was possible for free, but… Reddit wants parties that submit more than a hundred API requests per minute per Open Authorization client identity will be charged. For third parties that do not use the OAuth protocol, free use of the API is limited to ten requests per minute.