The price hikes have led some beloved third-party Reddit apps such as Apollo to shut down, instigating an uproar among the website's community of volunteer moderators, who often rely on third-party apps to run the site's 100,000+ discussion communities, called subreddits.
But tensions remain high, and some say that if Reddit doesn't rebuild trust, its most passionate users will go elsewhere.
Ohanian rejoined Reddit as executive chairman in 2014 and Huffman rejoined as CEO the next year.
But it's not just tech giants who use Reddit's API.
These third-party apps are largely just alternatives to Reddit's official mobile app, which didn't even exist until 2016.
Persons:
Reddit, David DeWald, Alexis Ohanian, Steve Huffman, Paul Graham, Ohanian, Huffman, Y Combinator, Condé Nast, Debra Aho Williamson, George Floyd's, it's, Apollo, Jakub Porzycki
Organizations:
University of Virginia, Advance, Facebook, Insider Intelligence, GameStop, AMC, Google, Getty