I don’t think it’s necessarily newsworthy as they’ve stated they would do that since the beginning of the uprising. They would be silly to sit on their thumbs while losing communities with millions of subs to protest. Open it, recruit a few people that could care less about 3rd party access and keep raking in that dough.

While this is logical it completely destroys their image and the whole point of volunteers creating these subreddits/their now selectively chosen guidelines they follow only when it benefits them 😆

I completely agree with you but I think that the majority of Reddit users don’t care and in 6 months time, this debacle will be completely forgotten by them and revenue will have completely recovered. I don’t think I’m being cynical about it, I’m just going by past cases(FB, Twitter, etc.). The majority of users simply don’t care.