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.
“We’re aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible,” the company said in a tweet shortly thereafter. By 1:26 p.m., the incident was considered resolved. No operational issues were detected on June 13.
The outage happened on the same day as thousands of subreddits planned to go dark in one of the biggest protests on the site. The reason for the protests is Reddit’s new API pricing policy that will raise costs for third-party apps, which some developers said would force them to shut down….