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More than five thousand of them have gone dark to protest

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Is Reddit Still Private? Share Your Thoughts with r/ModCoord on June 12th, May 14th, and Beyond

That said, the platform seems unwilling to budge. Steve Huffman held the company line during an online question and answer period on Friday that caused many users to go private earlier than planned. I asked Reddit on Sunday if it still planned to move forward with the API pricing, and Rathschmidt said the company wasn’t planning any changes to what’s been announced.

It was a day when thousands of subreddits went dark to protest the site’s new pricing terms, and yet at the same time the same issues thatcurred on the other side of the globe happened.

Things seem to be getting better. For many Verge staffers, Reddit.com wasn’t loading, but now it is. At the peak of the issues, there were over 40,000 reports, but they have fallen steeply in the last year.

In r/ModCoord, four separate threads detail an “incomplete and growing list of participating subreddits” that includes numerous well-known communities with tens of millions of subscribers.

Many subreddits participating in the protest are going private for 48 hours, from June 12th to June 14th, but some plan to stay private until things change, according to a pinned post in the subreddit r/Save3rdPartyApps.

Apollo app developer Christian Selig, whose post about Reddit’s API pricing generated much of the initial outrage, said it was “incredibly amazing” seeing Reddit’s community come together to push back against the proposed changes. He wrote in a post that he hoped the site would listen. “I think showing humanity through apologizing for and recognizing that this process was handled poorly, and concrete promises to give developers more time, would go a long way to making people feel heard and instilling community confidence.”

“This isn’t something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love,” r/Toptomcat wrote in the post. And some subreddits didn’t wait until Monday: r/TIHI (Thanks, I Hate It) and r/polls were among those that went dark shortly after CEO Steve Huffman’s poorly-received Friday AMA.

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