> Will Reddit buckle under pressure and go back on the API changes? If they do, it won't be for several months and only if there's a drop in traffic that looks

> Will Reddit buckle under pressure and go back on the API changes? If they do, it won't be for several months and only if there's a drop in traffic that looks to be permanent. The protest itself won't change anything. A change in the API certainly makes sense (OpenAI showed the value of the reddit's comment data, and I think spez is pissed that OpenAI is not only profitable, in a large part due to the availability of reddit's comment data, but because OpenAI is run by another reddit co-founder). And maybe that's the plan all along... There's an idea that users will hate any change you preset. If you give users minimal-change, they'll hate it and revolt. If you give users drastic-change, they'll hate it and revolt. So give them drastic-change, weather the revolt, then walk back to moderate-change and by-in-large they'll accept it.