Reddit Goes Offline Amid Mass Community Protests Over New Pricing Policy

The Reddit app is shown on a smartphone on July 13, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters

Social platform Reddit went offline for some time on June 12 when numerous subreddits or communities began protesting against the company’s new policy for access to the application programming interface (API), which would charge web developers for access to the site’s backend interface.

The outage began at about 10:25 a.m. Eastern time, TechCrunch reported.