Where did that Reddit AMA go?
Addressing the community about changes to our API

Dear redditors, For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Steve aka u/spez. I am one of the founders of Reddit, and I’ve been CEO since 2015. On...

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Doubling down.
"Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses”
Someone needs to learn how to read the room. Damn that’s some bad PR.

So the AMA ended up being 20k almost exclusively negative comments and 14 non answers that just pissed people off more.

Dave Chappelle has some salient advice for next time:

I don't think a 2 day Reddit blackout is going to do anything. Guessing they'll just wait it out and do nothing.

If it was set up as "until things change” it'd be a lot more interesting. Mostly because I think Reddit would panic at some point and do something really stupid, which would be fun to watch.

@paul Most subreddits are going dark from the 12th onwards. Only a handful are only going out for two days. At least that’s my understanding
@sladewatkins @paul The one I read most often has cut down on posts to less than 1 per day already, will go completely dark on the 12th.