Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down

It's been quite a day for Reddit. Thousands of communities have temporarily closed shop to protest changes the company is making to its API, which is impacting several third-party apps. On top of that, the platform is suffering a major outage across its desktop and mobile websites, as well as the mobile apps. “We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible,” read a message on the Reddit status page as of 10:58AM ET.

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