Greetings, /r/feedthebeast!

We’d like to inform you of a change Reddit is making that harms our ability to moderate this subreddit, along with the ability of multiple members of the community from browsing Reddit at all.

For those unaware, most Reddit moderators primarily use third party apps to moderate on mobile, due to the official Reddit app lacking features that assist moderation. Many larger subreddits also use bots to help with moderation.

Beginning July 1st, Reddit will be increasing their API prices to numbers that are unreasonably high. Most third party Reddit apps and moderation bots rely on this API, and following these price changes, the operators of said applications won’t be able to afford it (see this post by the creator of the Apollo app for more information, including the estimated 20 million USD bill that they would need to pay). This change not only makes things worse for Reddit moderators across the entire site, but also regular users of Reddit such as the blind community, which relies on third party apps in order to browse the site (post from the mods of /r/Blind here).

For more information about this change and how it negatively affects third party apps and bots, see this post from /r/Save3rdPartyApps.

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In solidarity with other participating subreddits (an incomplete list here), /r/feedthebeast will be going private from June 12th 12 AM UTC till at least June 14th 12AM UTC to protest these changes.

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Sincerely,

The /r/feedthebeast Team