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Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma
Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able
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Reddit Is No Longer the "Weird" Social Media. It’s Also Not Quite Normal.
There’s the Reddit of ‘Dumb Money’ that prompted a major fiasco in the finance industry, and then there’s the Reddit of celebrity AMAs and refining your pedestrian Google searches. On today’s Reddit, you can have both.
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Reddit is testing “official” labels for profiles and making parts of its app compatible with screen readers
The “Official” label is a small test to start.
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No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators
Disenchanted mods Ars spoke with want change, not more communication.
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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards
Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.
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Reddit is removing years of chats and messages
Reddit has removed years of chat and message logs, but there may be a way to recover some of that data.
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Reddit Tells Protesting Mods It Will Remove Them If They Don’t Stop, As Reddit’s Subreddit For The Blind Can No Longer Be Moderated By Blind Users
Meanwhile, now that the API changes have been put in place, and a bunch of tools have had to shut down, moderators for the /r/blind subreddit announced that their blind mods can no longer moderate the sub.
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Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits
Reddit isn't profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform's API
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Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else
Many communities on Reddit have used the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) designation in some form to protest Reddit’s new API pricing, which forced apps like Apollo and rif is fun for Reddit to shut down, as well as a recent pattern of behavior toward its unpaid volunteer moderators that they find “threatening.” Subreddits, including r/PICS and r/military, had made the NSFW switch, pointing to language from Reddit websites to justify the change.
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Reddit braces for life after API changes
Reddit and its communities are preparing for a life after the platform's API changes forced popular third-party apps to shut down.
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So where are we all supposed to go now?
An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over.
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Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down
Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.
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How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.
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Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord
Fidelity has further slashed the estimated worth of its holdings in Reddit and Discord as well as SaaS startup Gupshup.
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Reddit's Valuation Has Fallen Even Further, Fidelity Says
Reddit is facing a crisis both in its user base and its finances. After protests and backlashed ravaged the platform in the wake of Reddit opting to charge for access to its API, the company’s valuation has been sliced. TechCrunch reports that the Blue Chip Growth Fund at Fidelity, a major financial services provider, has reduced its estimates of Reddit’s holdings following an already poor estimate earlier this spring.
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Reddit Threatens Subs to Go Public Again, or Else...
The site is handing out Thursday deadlines for reopening as key metrics take a hit.
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Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
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A Reddit transcription community will shut down over a 'lack of trust' in the platform
A group of Reddit volunteers who transcribe media from around 100 subreddits are shutting down their community, partly due to the company's controversial API changes..
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Reddit says accessibility upgrades for moderators are coming to its mobile apps soon
Reddit will make “accessibility improvements” to many moderator tools in its official mobile apps by July 1st, the company announced on Friday. Some moderators rely on third-party apps because Reddit’s apps have what they characterize as “significant accessibility challenges,” and the accessibility community has expressed concerns over how they will moderate on mobile after popular apps like Apollo shut down on June 30th due to potentially expensive API pricing changes.
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Reddit says accessibility upgrades for moderators are coming to its mobile apps soon
Many still seem unhappy with the company’s plan.
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