Reddit blackout protests didn't quite force the company to reverse course on its API changes that resulted in the shutdown of many popular third-party apps, but it did succeed in dominating the conversation around the platform for weeks. "I'm pretty upset at the way Reddit chose to do this (and that I didn't get any messages from Reddit warning users about this)," one Redditor wrote on the platform. Reddit changes continue to pile upannounced it was ending its Reddit Gold reward system and faced immediate backlash from its users