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Why did Alexis Ohanian Resign from Reddit? Following the upcoming software programming interface (API) pricing modifications on the social dialogue platform Reddit, greater than 6,000 subreddits have gone dark, together with lots of the platform's most-subscribed communities resembling r/humorous, r/aww, r/gaming, r/music, and r/science, which means these communities are not publicly accessible, even to Reddit customers beforehand subscribed to them. Many subreddits collaborating within the protest will go non-public for 48 hours, from June 12 to June 14, however some plan to stay non-public till issues change, studies The Verge. "This is not one thing any of us do evenly: we do what we do as a result of we love Reddit, and we actually imagine this alteration will make it unimaginable to preserve doing what we love," r/Toptomcat was quoted as saying. Christian Selig, the Apollo app developer who posted about Reddit's API pricing that sparked a lot of the preliminary outrage, stated seeing Reddit's group unite towards the proposed modifications was "extremely superb". "I actually hope Reddit listens," he wrote in a submit on the Apollo subreddit. "I believe displaying humanity by way of apologizing for and recognizing that this course of was dealt with poorly, and concrete guarantees to give builders extra time, would go a great distance to making individuals really feel heard and instilling group confidence," Selig added. Reddit mascots are displayed on the firm's headquarters in San Francisco, California April 15, 2014.Reuters Last week, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hosted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session to focus on the platform's controversial API modifications, confirming that Reddit isn't planning to revive its coming API pricing modifications which have induced a number of builders to announce they are going to be shutting down their apps. In the session, Huffman continued his accusations towards Selig's "behaviour and communications" as being "everywhere" and saying he could not see Reddit working with the developer additional, TechCrunch reported. (With inputs from IANS)

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