Online discussion forum platform and news aggregator Reddit suffered a major outage on Monday, 12 June 2023, affecting its desktop and mobile sites and the mobile app.<\/p>\n
The company blamed the outage on the moderator-initiated protest<\/a><\/strong> that kicked off on that same day.<\/p>\n “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” Engadget quoted<\/a><\/strong> Reddit as saying.<\/p>\n The outage started at around 08:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) \u2014 or 17:00 in South Africa \u2014 and persisted for approximately two-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\n “We’re aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible,” the Reddit status page<\/a><\/strong> read at the time of the outage.<\/p>\n “We’re observing improvements across the site and expect issue to recover for most users [sic]. We will continue to closely monitor the situation,” it said about an hour later.<\/p>\n Reddit confirmed that the incident had been resolved at 10:26 PDT or 19:26 in South Africa.<\/p>\n Moderators on the platform started locking users out of subreddits on Monday, 12 June, to take a stance against Reddit’s plans to charge third-party app developers for access to the website’s data.<\/p>\n It is expected to last at least 48 hours, but some groups have indicated they would continue their protest longer.<\/p>\n The protest has made more than 3,000 subreddit groups inaccessible to users, including major pages like r\/apple, r\/videos, r\/sports, and r\/MildlyInteresting. The South African subreddits \/r\/southafrica and \/r\/RSA are also participating in the protest.<\/p>\n Reddit announced its plan to start charging third-party app developers, like Apollo, Reddit Is Fun, and Sync, to use its API.<\/p>\n However, developers have described the plan to charge for API access as prohibitive, with Apollo claiming it would have to pay Reddit $20 million (R373 million) a year.<\/p>\n A company spokesman said Reddit spends millions hosting its content and “needs to be fairly paid to continue supporting high-usage third-party apps.”<\/p>\n Reddit suffered a two-and-a-half-hour outage on Monday, 12 June, which it blamed on the moderator protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":458365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[86963,54371,87083,8045,87091],"class_list":["post-496137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-apis","tag-apollo","tag-online-forums","tag-reddit","tag-reddit-api"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496171,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496137\/revisions\/496171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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