[The Verge] Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods

Reddit communities went dark to protest recent changes.

Here's the list of highlights from the article, as it's a good TL;DR:

The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working

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so... nothing new?
- Pretty much, but it's useful to have such a summary to refer to. Specially in the future, as it'll be harder and harder over time to remember what was going on in Reddit, and why so many people left it. And one of my objectives with this comm is to document what happened with Reddit, it would be great if we did the same when Digg went downhill.
  
  I’ll tell you what happened with Digg:
  
  Kevin Rose swears he'll listen to the community and not introduce a major overhaul which will bring several unpopular changes
  
  a month or so passes and Digg leadership thinks everyone is stupid and forgot
  
  Digg 4 launches and literally everyone leaves for reddit over the next couple of weeks.
  
  Fark and Slashdot collectively die laughing, then of being old curmudgeons
  
  there, now you're all caught up
  
  did many people actually leave? Haven't seen any statistics yet
As someone who lives in the SF bay area I pray one day I see Steve Huffman in person so I can personally tell him to go f**k himself (yes I know, I know, r/iamverybadass) ;-)
It seems like this all happened a long time ago at this point…
- A lot of that feels old for me, too.
Nothing changed, this is month old news.

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