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/
I was able to make an account on here finally, I’m never going back now! Woohoo! Gonna go use one of those reddit data deletion tools this afternoon.
Do you have a link to such a tool? I’d love to get rid of all my contributions to reddit.
https://shreddit.com/ Is used for this. But you have to delete the account separately. It only deletes all your posts and comments.
https://shreddit.com/
Makes the whole deal crazy simple. Great app. Afterwards just delete your account since the tab is already open. Got 2 accounts zeroed and deleted earlier. They run as background jobs so once you hit go, you can shutdown your computer and it’ll run to completion.
Do you have such a tool? What does it do?
I’ve two accounts: 1 at 14 years and the other at 8. I’d love to be able to remove my presence from that website.
Shreddit deletes your comments but you still have to go delete your account
Hmm…
I only find “Shreddit” as an Android app. Is that what you’re referring to? Also thanks for the information!
It’s a website, that’s what I used.
This was me. I spent an inordinant amount of time just trying to get an account going. I won’t be back to Reddit.