In an internal memo sent Monday afternoon to Reddit staff, CEO Steve Huffman addressed the recent blowback directed at the company, telling employees to block out the “noise” and that the ongoing blackout of thousands of subreddits will eventually pass.

Apparently, all those sites going private resulted in… Reddit itself falling over.

Thousands of Reddit communities will be inaccessible on Monday in protest at how the site is being run. Reddit is introducing controversial charges to developers of third-party apps, which are used to browse the social media platform. But this has resulted in a backlash, with moderators of some of the biggest subreddits making their communities private for 48 hours in protest.

Comparison of different Lemmy Instances on GitHub.

A lot of Reddit will go dark soon in protest of API changes

Reddit is making the moves to address priorities, including funding projects and achieving its goal of breaking even next year, Chief Executive Steve Huffman told employees.

Moderators say third-party apps are essential for their work.

r/RedditAlternatives: A subreddit for cataloging, dispersing and sharing all reddit alternatives out there.

Reddit is not the only company launching ways for communities to host conversations.

Industry workers have long viewed Reddit as more sex-positive than other online platforms. But a growing number say that’s now changing

TIME spoke to 19 Reddit moderators around the world who say Reddit has ignored their pleas for the company to rein in hate-speech in non-English language subreddits

Initially I thought I would be unable to completely solve this problem and would have to live with unsolicited tonkers, but I fixed it entirely. Tonkers 100% gone. How’d I do it? Read on!

Although the Herman Cain Award wasn’t created to encourage people to get vaccinated, it’s helping anti-vaxxers change their minds.

It's also putting 54 other subreddits in quarantine.

The gunman was suspended from Reddit on 11 August for violating the platform's policies

r/Music, r/AmongUs, and over 200 other communities are now private.

$4.5 billion drop in assets after bets against the likes of GameStop go sour.

Reddit warned moderators of "repeated policy violations."

The social media company will also allow employees to work remotely.

Reddit is gearing up to run ads for President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election despite concerns from employees, TechCrunch has learned. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman addressed some of these employee concerns during an all-hands meeting last week, viewed by TechCrunch.