Reddit API protest: 80% of top 5,000 communities are now operational

The Reddit blackout that began on June 12 in opposition to the company’s revised third-party app policies appears to have subsided a little.

In a blog post on its website, the company stated that as of June 15 more than 80 per cent of its top 5,000 communities were operational and were anticipated to continue functioning in a similar manner.

The number is down from the 8,000 communities that went dark when the protest first began.

However, Reddit chief executive Steve Huffman has told his employees in an internal memo they must “block out the noise” and that this blackout of subreddits will eventually pass, a report by The Verge said.