Reddit briefly banned dozens of subreddits without warning on Wednesday due to a “bug” that affected scores of NSFW communities on the site. Redditors were told the subreddits were banned for being “unmoderated” even though many were heavily moderated, according to numerous posts from confused moderators. <br /> Engadget counted more than 90 subreddits that seem to have been caught up in the “unmoderated” ban. The vast majority of these have now been restored after going offline for a few hours Wednesday morning. In a post in r/ModSupport, a Reddit admin blamed the widespread bans on a bug. “There was a bug with one of our tools that caused some subreddits to be banned incorrectly,” they wrote. “We are actively working on a fix and many of your communities are alre [...]
Dozens of subreddits have opted to block links to X in their communities over the last 24 hours in a movement that appears to be gaining momentum across Reddit. Hundreds more appear to be actively dis [...]
Reddit has temporarily banned the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk complained about the community. The subreddit is currently inaccessible with a message from Reddit stating that the com [...]
Reddit will now allow its users to do something it never before has permitted: to selectively "curate" their public-facing profiles by hiding some of their posting and commenting activity fr [...]
Reddit is suing companies SerApi, OxyLabs, AWMProxy and Perplexity for allegedly scraping its data from search results and using it without a license, The New York Times reports. The new lawsuit follo [...]
Two days after releasing what analysts call the most powerful open-source AI model ever created, researchers from China's Moonshot AI logged onto Reddit to face a restless audience. The Beijing-b [...]