#Reddit down android#
Reddit’s website online via desktop almost never goes down for long periods of time, but lately some of you may be having problems with the Reddit mobile app on iOS and Android not working. With such a popular system, maintenance will never be welcomed and any outages will disrupt on a large scale. This social networks popularity has to be due to the way users create the news links and votes take the best stories to Reddit’s front page. If their operations run with zero downtime for router management, then you can put short lived problems down to glitches and high demand. On a related note, the r/Android subreddit, the most popular Android community on Reddit, will go dark for 48 hours on June 12 in protest of the API changes.The majority of Reddit outages are due to small glitches that see Reddit down for only a couple of minutes, as such it’s very unlikely to be due to maintenance and more likely some sort of server restart. You were all wonderful in your own unique ways. The developer of Infinity for Reddit has suggested the idea of individual payment for each user’s API use. There’s also no confirmation on BaconReader just yet. What about other popular third-party Reddit clients on Android? The developer of Boost for Reddit has suggested that a shutdown may be in the cards, but it hasn’t been explicitly confirmed yet. In a post, the developer of RIF explains that the costs to keep the app running would mirror that of Apollo, despite RIF generating income “remotely near this number.” Apollo shutting down due to Reddit’s unaffordable API.That client, which is also shutting down, would have had to pay upwards of $20 million per year, making the app drastically more expensive for users. The popular third-party Reddit client Apollo, exclusively available on iOS, has helped to shine a spotlight on Reddit’s harsh terms. Under the new rules, third-party Reddit apps cannot run ads, cannot show explicit (NSFW) content, and are hit with other restrictions.
Reddit’s new paid API, announced last month, has been a death knell to many third-party apps due to the intense costs associated with the API, as well as the changes the API imposed. Meanwhile, Sync for Reddit is also shutting down both its Android and iOS apps. It has over 5 million downloads from the Play Store.
#Reddit down for android#
Reddit is Fun (RIF) has been an especially popular choice for Android users, as the app has always been exclusive to the Android platform. The popular third-party Reddit apps for Android have amassed millions upon millions of downloads and are especially popular among Reddit’s most active users. Infinity for Reddit is also moving to a subscription-only model.Īs confirmed today, both Sync for Reddit and Reddit is Fun (RIF) will be shutting down on June 30. Joey for Reddit is also inexplicably still working, but it may not last. Both of those apps have announced a subscription-based model which will allow the apps to continue. There are some apps that will survive the shutdown, such as Relay for Reddit and Now for Reddit. The API changes have also killed off Boost for Reddit, BaconReader, and more have all shut down.
#Reddit down update#
Update 7/1: As of today, Reddit has enacted its new API policy and charges, and in turn effectively pulled the plug on countless third-party Reddit apps for Android and other platforms.Īs we reported on in June (original coverage below), that includes the shutdown of Sync for Reddit and Reddit is Fun (RIF). On July 1, Reddit has enacted a new API policy that charges exorbitant fees to developers of third-party apps for the website, which is having the effect of shutting down these popular apps, including Reddit is Fun, Sync for Reddit, and more.
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