In a blog post on its website, the company stated that as of June 15 more than 80 per cent of its top 5,000 communities were operational and were anticipated to continue functioning in a similar manner.
The number is down from the 8,000 communities that went dark when the protest first began.
“There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest, we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well,” the memo read.
“The only long-term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail,” it cited Huffman as saying. A modding tool is a software that helps you create, manage, and install mods for a specific game or engine.
API, or application programming interface, is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other and is an accessible way to extract and share data within and across organisations.
Why the protests?
An API is used every time someone sends a mobile payment or makes use of a ridesharing app. Third-party apps have been using Reddit’s open API to collect data or create apps.
Reddit users as well as many of its subreddits demanded a protest against the company’s decision to charge for its API.
“While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple of others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others,” the memo said.