Read the full internal memo from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman below:
Hi Snoos,
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.
That’s exactly the message I would expect a CEO to “send the troops.”
As out outsider reading it, it simply confirms leaving the site is the correct move for me.
“We must ship what we said we would” means they’re not backing down on their pricing out of 3PA and they’ll put together some half baked mod tools held together with duct tape and a dream to placate the people they replace the mods who leave with.
Maybe some great mods will stay, maybe they’ll leave and be replaced, but bad tools will mean more low end content / trolls / harassment / etc and the place will eventually feel less like someone would want to go.
Next step convince everyone to purge their accounts. Delete reddits data, make it worthless. If they’re gonna fight us we need to fight back.
F*** u/spez
He really calls employees “Snoos”?
We’re not going to assault your employees Huffman.
I was going to wait until June 30th to delete my account, but it’s going bye-bye today.
Thanks to whoever leaked this.
But this warning makes us the bad guys, perfect plan!
How can we be MORE disruptive? 🤔
