We don\u2019t have a hard timeline right now, but we will work directly with the mods, developers, and communities that depend on our systems and make sure to keep everyone updated.<\/p>\n
This follows June comments from a Reddit employee about Old Reddit, stating, \u201cwe can\u2019t promise it will be around forever\u201d while noting CEO Steve Huffman\u2019s earlier promises<\/a> to keep supporting the site while people still use it.<\/p>\n API access<\/p>\n Reddit has previously fought against unauthorized scraping by suing Perplexity<\/a>, Anthropic<\/a>, and others, blocking the Internet Archive<\/a>, and restricting crawler access<\/a> for search engines it doesn\u2019t have a deal with.<\/p>\n Reddit also infamously started charging for access to its API in 2023. Although the more immediate impact was the shuttering of most third-party Reddit apps<\/a>, the initial stated purpose<\/a> of reducing API access was to stop generative AI companies from using Reddit to train large language models for free.<\/p>\n Reddit is building on those controversial API changes by starting to restrict new requests for access and requiring third-party apps to move to Reddit\u2019s Developer Platform<\/a>, it announced today.<\/p>\n \u201cWe envision a future where all good, trusted automation on Reddit runs within an ecosystem that allows us to offer support and enforce our policies consistently,\u201d Reddit\u2019s blog said about the API changes.<\/p>\n