Hi everyone,

We are announcing that we are joining the protest against the announced price hike for the Reddit API (https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/).

Thanks to your upvotes and our users' and volunteer mods' clarifications (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/13zamq8/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/), we understand how important it is for third-party apps to continue offering their services. They are not only essential tools for moderators (most of whom are volunteers) but, more importantly, they provide a great many quality-of-life features, including accessibility features like the ones that help the visually impaired.

We wish to express our solidarity, so our two biggest channels (r/ProtonMail and r/ProtonVPN) will be "going dark" for 48 hours (all of 12th and 13th June) - we won't be responding or posting here. If you need anything from us during those days, feel free to join our other communities (see the "About Proton" floating menu on the right) and reach out.

We completely understand that Reddit needs to monetize its platform to function - after all, our own business model too is a freemium one, offering certain features only on paid subscriptions. However, we believe that there are more just ways to monetize than this, and we hope Reddit will reconsider its decision.

EDIT: To clarify, we will not be switching the subreddits to "private" because our Subreddits often serve as a product knowledge base for our users, especially users from countries like Russia where it is impossible to access our website directly. We don't want to hinder people who are just trying to get support. However, we won't be responding or posting anything.