Jay Peters

8,838 have pledged to do so. Though I have to wonder if these numbers are about to grow.

ICYMI, the company laid off about 90 staffers as part of a goal to break even next year, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month. In his widely-disliked AMA on Friday, CEO Steve Huffman said that the company will “continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive” — it seems that the layoffs and the third-party API pricing changes are part of that mission.

Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest is happening again in June 2024. There will be another big live show (here’s all our coverage of this year’s) and an in-person Play Days event (which, for the past two years, has been an invite-only event). And I’m guessing “Game Fest” will once again encompass a bunch of summer gaming shows — this year, those included the Xbox Games Showcase, Ubisoft Forward, and Capcom Showcase.

Yes, that Timehop. It will now be part of a newly-established parent company (Sincere Corporation) that also owns invitations / greeting card service Punchbowl and video message / photo album service Memento.

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.