Hello everyone. We've received your messages and read your threads asking if we will be participating in the Sitewide blackout on June 12th-14th. We want to make sure we are representing our community properly, so we are putting it to a poll. Please let us know your thoughts, as we will follow the community's wishes on this poll's result.

What's happening?

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• Third-party Reddit apps (such as Sync, Reddit is Fun, and Apollo, among others) are set to become significantly more costly for their developers to maintain. This could either kill these apps or necessitate a monthly fee from users who choose to use these apps for browsing. Simply put, each request to Reddit within these mobile apps will cost the developer money. The developers of Apollo were quoted around $2 million per month for the current rate of usage. The only viable way for these apps to continue is if you (the user) pay a monthly fee, and realistically, this will most likely lead to their discontinuation. In no uncertain terms: If you use a third-party app to browse Reddit, you will most likely no longer be able to do so, or be charged a monthly fee to keep it viable.
• Numerous users with visual impairments depend on 3rd-party applications to more easily interact with Reddit, as the official Reddit mobile app does not have robust support for visually-impaired users. This means that a significant portion of visually-impaired Redditors will no longer be able to access the site in the assisted manner they're accustomed to.

• Many moderators depend on 3rd-party tools to effectively moderate their communities, us included. When the changes to the API are implemented, moderation across the board will not only become more challenging, but it will result in less consistency, longer wait times on post approvals and reports, and an increase in spam/bot activity slipping through the cracks. In discussions with mods on many subreddits, many longtime moderators will simply leave the site. Despite Redditors traditionally criticizing moderators, the truth is that they contribute a tremendous amount of unpaid work, and without them, the entire site would markedly decline in quality and usability.

  In light of what's happening above, an open letter has been issued by the wider moderation community

For a list of all participating subreddits, check out thread 1 of 2 here

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