Thousands of Reddit communities 'go dark' in protest of new developer fees

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Thousands of sections of the popular online message board Reddit are "going dark" for two days starting Monday to protest controversial new fees the site is charging third-party developers.

Some of the largest communities on Reddit are being set to private for 48 hours, meaning they will not be publicly available. By doing this, Redditors aim to pressure company executives to reverse their decision to charge developers for access to the site, which until now has been free.

In a Reddit post about the boycott, organizers wrote that the charges are "a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit."

For example, many mobile users of Reddit use third-party apps like Apollo, Reddit is Fun and ReddPlanet to browse the site.

But because of the new fees for accessing Reddit data, it may become too expensive for the third-party apps to exist at all.

In fact, the apps Apollo, Reddit is Fun and ReddPlanet have all said they will be shutting down in response to the fees.