After participating in a 48-hour blackout protest against Reddit’s decision to charge third-party developers for API access, moderators of the World of Warcraft subreddit have announced that the subreddit will be indefinitely returning to private mode in continued protest.
This past April, Reddit announced plans to charge for access to its API in order to combat companies using it to train AI programs, citing them as extremely profitable big companies benefitting from Reddit’s API for free.