With 72 Hours, you’ll have three days to message and meet with people before your chats with them disappear. It’s launching first in New York this week and will expand nationwide “over the coming months.”
I’m signing off for the day, but I wanted to share the latest count of subreddits that are going private to protest Reddit’s API changes. 8,304 subreddits have pledged to do so, according to a live tracker.
The subreddit blackouts are expected to last until June 14th.
Twitter owner Elon Musk says the company is “hopefully releasing the update this week.” I closed Twitter DMs months ago, just email me instead!
And you might not know that AI is at the heart of it.
Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge that an experiment preventing users from logging in to Reddit’s mobile website is done. A Reddit admin confirmed the test a month ago after a Redditor said they couldn’t login to the mobile site on iOS.
According to SamMobile, some Google apps will be optimized for the updated cover display, including Google Maps, Messages, and YouTube. This isn’t an entirely new idea — you can run apps on the Moto Razr Plus’ bigger cover screen, too — but it still seems like an extremely useful way to use the extra screen real estate.
Samsung will likely announce its new foldables at Unpacked in July.
That’s just one of many things addressed in Redfall’s 1.1 patch, and you can read all of the patch notes here. There are a lot of fixes and updates, but still no 60fps mode on Xbox, which was delayed just before the game’s launch. I’m guessing that even with this patch, the game will still have a lot of problems.
[bethesda.net]
Things have switched from “major outage” to “operational” on Reddit’s status dashboard, and a new message indicates things are getting better. “We’re observing improvements across the site and expect issue to recover for most users,” Reddit wrote. “We will continue to closely monitor the situation.”
Here’s our story about the outage.
