Here’s the list of highlights from the article, as it’s a good TL;DR:

  • The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
  • How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
  • Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
  • Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
  • Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
  • A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
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    81 year ago

    It’s now clear to me that, since being sold to Condé Nast, Reddit has never been run by smart people who know what they’re doing

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      81 year ago

      A community site built and moderated by the good will of others isn’t sustainable when the folks running the site tell the community to go fuck themselves.

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      31 year ago

      It wasn’t Erin by Emery people before Conde Nast bought them. The only reason the site still exists is because Kevin Rose fucked up really badly, not through anything the admins did