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Moderators of many Reddit communities are pledging to keep their subreddits private or restricted indefinitely. For the vast majority of subreddits, the blackout to protest Reddit\u2019s expensive API pricing changes was expected to last from Monday until Wednesday. But in response to a Tuesday post on the r\/ModCoord subreddit, users are chiming in to say that their subreddits will remain dark past that 48-hour window.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cReddit has budged microscopically,\u201d u\/SpicyThunder335, a moderator for r\/ModCoord, wrote in the post<\/a>. They say that despite an announcement that access to a popular data-archiving tool for moderators would be restored, \u201cour core concerns\u00a0still<\/a>\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0satisfied<\/a>, and these concessions came prior to the blackout start date; Reddit has been silent since it began.\u201d SpicyThunder335 also bolded a line from a Monday memo from CEO Steve Huffman obtained by The Verge<\/em><\/a> \u2014 \u201clike all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well\u201d \u2014 and said that \u201cmore is needed for Reddit to act.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Screenshot by Jay Peters \/ The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ahead of the Tuesday post, more than 300 subreddits had committed to staying dark indefinitely, SpicyThunder335 said. The list included some hugely popular subreddits, like r\/aww<\/a> (more than 34 million subscribers), r\/music<\/a> (more than 32 million subscribers), and r\/videos<\/a> (more than 26 million subscribers). Even r\/nba<\/a> committed to an indefinite timeframe<\/a> at arguably the most important time of the NBA season<\/a>. But SpicyThunder335 invited moderators to share pledges to keep the protests going, and the commitments are rolling in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SpicyThunder335 notes that not everyone will be able to go dark indefinitely for valid reasons. \u201cFor example,\u00a0r\/stopDrinking<\/a>\u00a0represents a valuable resource for a communities in need, and the urgency of getting the news of the ongoing war out to\u00a0r\/Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0obviously outweighs any of these concerns,\u201d SpicyThunder335 wrote. As an alternative, SpicyThunder335 recommended implementing a \u201cweekly gesture of support on \u2018Touch-Grass-Tuesdays,\u2019\u201d which would be left up to the discretion of individual communities. SpicyThunder335 also acknowledged that some subreddits would need to poll their users to make sure they\u2019re on board.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n