The largest mods on reddit are getting their powers stripped and the subreddits are being restored. Hopefully /r/WoW should follow soon!
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Isn’t this a bad thing for Reddit, long-term?
I thought we were on strike or something, because of the forced changes?
Did it fail? Lol.
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Hi! This is fantastic news! Do you have any examples of communities that have been reopened?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/14bc62s/seems_like_they_arent_budging_and_now_are/
Reddit mods surprised their planned 2 days “strike” or “blackout” wasn’t effective. 
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As an FYI, you can place backticks ( the ` symbol ) at the beginning and end of the URL so you don’t have to break it up. It’ll turn it into preformatted text like this and allow you to post it:
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ty fixed it
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Nice. Sounds like the protest was people getting mad about price increase from inflation or something which isn’t the fault of the site owner.
Such a sociopathic take. I’m sure the corporation is glad for your unwavering support. But consumers gotta consume, I suppose.
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Not really at all.
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No. The protest was in response to reddit significantly increasing the cost for websites/apps to use their API, which killed multiple 3rd party apps.
If I remember correctly, they planned to raise the price to around $20 million per year for the access the apps needed to function.
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I don’t know what the alternative but it could also be the company saying they aren’t financially viable anymore if they don’t find a way to get more money.
They’ve started at things that cause a load on their server that doesn’t otherwise bring in revenue.
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Okay. I still won’t go on it. Reddit’s been a cesspool for a long time, and this entire fiasco was just the last thing that made it incredibly easy to just delete it from my phone.
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If it forces them to commit change via rotation of subreddit staff then it’s effective. It’s just that they’re utilizing union-busting instead of actually having talks with people.
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Well yeah dude, it was free before lmao.
So if an app is causing 80 million API calls a minute that reddit is currently subsidising I can see why they would change their mind.
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This just makes me hope that Spez can never launch an IPO off the site cause he is a greedy PoS
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$20 million per year just so 3rd party apps can use the API? Sheesh, that seems overkill.
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This isn’t a good thing though, stripping mods of their own power is silly honestly given their ones that made the community and subreddit in the first place. Not reddit, and the only reason why their doing this is because it’s impacting them harder than they’ll ever admit to. Personally I’ve decided to stop using reddit with the latest response from them being to strong arm their own community into submission. That’s simply not okay nor should be supported, as while I understand it’s annoying that communities are now privated, deleting conversations and the like, it’s in response to a bad decision that overall will make reddit worse in the end and their just doubling down on it in the worst way possible.
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what happened now
also lol reddit
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