Reddit in Turmoil: Thousands of Pages Go Dark in Protest.
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Thousands of subreddits, with hundreds of millions of subscribers, are going dark for 48 hours to protest against new API pricing changes that would essentially kill off many third-party applications. Reddit has a large community of third-party application developers, and under the new terms, applications with fewer than 100 queries per minute will remain free, while third-party apps with higher API requests will be charged $0.24 for every 1,000 requests. Despite widespread backlash, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the company has no plans to revise its coming API changes.
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