The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (opens in new tab)

> I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app?

OP's comment states multiple good reasons why people would be pissed off. There are many, many more.

And you don't even need to be "outraged" to leave - it's enough to feel disrespected. If you don't feel disrespected, fine - stay. Have fun. But, ignoring other people's real experience, then immediately acting as if there's nothing to be mad about, is disingenuous.

I bet you're still on old reddit. This is the equivalent of shutting down old reddit for mobile.

Welcome to how protesting works. This could be a time for you to inform yourself of why the protesters are pissed off and why Reddit is at this point, never going to get back to the quality of engagement it used to have.

If I recall correctly former reddit CEO Yishan Wong’s tweets on the matter, it was ordered by Alexis Ohanian directly. Yishan went on to describe how Alexis let the at-the-time CEO, Ellen Pao, take the heat for the decision.

In my eyes, Reddit’s distaste for their own users emanates from the founders directly.

I view moderators a lot like open source maintainers. It’s often a thankless job you do for free and you have to put up with a lot of shit. Also a lot of people think the job is easy and “anyone could do it” when we know that’s not the case in reality. You need someone who cares in that position. Are there bad mods and bad OS maintainers? Absolutely, but it’s still not as easy as people make it out to be to replace either.