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Steve Huffman, Reddit's CEO. On April 18, 2023, Reddit announced it would charge for its API service amid a potential initial public offering. [6] Speaking to The New York Times ' Mike Isaac, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said, "The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable, but we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free".
Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have “gone dark” — temporarily closing their virtual doors — for what’s planned as a two-day protest over the company’s move to charge third-party ...
UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2023, 11:52 a.m. EDT Reddit appeared to recover from its crash on Monday by about midday eastern time. The homepage was loading on desktop and outage reports were falling on Down ...
The new fees are part of broader changes to Reddit's API, or application programming interface, that the company announced recently. The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are ...
In September 2024, Reddit announced that moderators will no longer have the ability of changing subreddit accessibility from "public" to "private" without approval from Reddit staff. This was widely interpreted by moderators as a punitive change in response to the 2023 API protests. [31]
Original Reddit wordmark (2005–2018), still seen on the "classic" Reddit interface Reddit logo used from 2017 to 2023. Reddit's logo consists of a time-traveling alien named Snoo and the company name stylized as "reddit". The alien has an oval head, pom-pom ears, and an antenna. [175] Its colors are black, white, and orange-red. [175]
Action is a protest against site’s leadership and decisions over third-party apps
Steve Huffman (born 1983 or 1984), also known by his Reddit username spez (/ s p ɛ z /), is an American web developer and entrepreneur.He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a social news and discussion website, which ranks 9th in the top 20 websites in the world as of February 2025. [4]