Parts of Reddit ‘going dark’ in protest of developer fees

Communities on the online message board Reddit are “going dark” to protest new fees the site is charging third-party developers. Some sections of the site are being set to private for 48 hours as part of the protest, which started Monday, meaning some of the largest communities on Reddit won’t be publicly viewable during the protest. The protest came after third-party developers that use Reddit said they would be shutting down over new fees to Reddit’s API, or application programming interface. For example, the creator of the Reddit app Apollo,...