Three large Reddit communities are not centered on John Oliver

Three of Reddit’s greatest communities are not centered solely on John Oliver in a type of protest towards Reddit. The subreddits had made the swap in June to push again on Reddit’s API pricing that in the end made some fashionable third-party apps shut down, however now, they’re working just about as they did earlier than the protests.

One of many subreddits, r/aww (which has greater than 34 million subscribers), posted a protracted clarification for the change. Whereas the r/aww neighborhood did vote “overwhelmingly” for the John Oliver rule, “it was by no means supposed to be everlasting,” a moderator wrote in the post, which was revealed earlier this week. “Greater than a month has handed, and as issues on the web go, the eagerness for the protest has waned and other people’s consideration has shifted to different issues.”

The mod says that the change did cut back visitors to the subreddit. “After an preliminary spike to regular ranges when the subreddit reopened, general subreddit traffic fell to between half and a 3rd of regular, although the inflow of subscribers paradoxically grew greater than the variety of folks unsubscribing,” the mod wrote. Nonetheless, they added that “it’s unlikely that it had any vital impact on sitewide visitors, as different subreddits simply crammed the gaps within the limitless feed of content material most customers devour.”

r/videos (with greater than 26 million subscribers) really dropped its John Oliver rule again in June; it was changed by a brand new rule that every one posts wanted to comprise profanity within the title after a community vote. Earlier this month, the r/movies moderators reverted the principles to what they had been earlier than the protests began. “For individuals who assume our protest went on too lengthy, chances are you’ll wish to remind yourselves why we did this in the first place,” a mod wrote in a post about the decision. “Reddit nonetheless has some points to handle.”