Jay Peters

In a tongue-in-cheek announcement post, the moderators said they had “no choice” because people had been posting profanity, which technically counts as NSFW (Not Safe For Work) under Reddit’s content policy. Despite the change, gore and pornography are still not allowed on the subreddit.

“When users are logged out, the app is still working because it does not use the OAuth client credentials while logged out,” developer Andrew Shu tells The Verge in an email. However, he expects that the app will stop working in this way soon.

“The venue is not near the epicenter of the protests, or any of the areas that have seen protest activity, and has continued to operate business as usual,” Twitch said on Twitter. The event is scheduled for July 8th and 9th.

“Since the latest “accessibility” update to the Reddit app, the amount and magnitude of new accessibility related bugs has made it virtually impossible for blind mods to operate on mobile,” the mods wrote. And since many third-party apps have shut down and one that had been granted an exemption for being accessibility-focused is apparently “impossible to log into,” they’re largely out of other options on mobile.

I had completely missed that TikTok added this feature. To flip it on for yourself, go to your profile, then Settings and privacy in the three lines menu, then Playback, and then toggle the Open TikTok on mute option.

I’m getting kind of melancholy reading posts about Reddit apps actually going kaput. It has been clear for awhile that Reddit wouldn’t budge, but part of me still hoped something would change before today.