Tag: reddit

Reddit back online after a software update took it down

Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outages on Downdetector as of 1:30 p.m....

Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages

Reddit users will soon see AI-generated summaries at the top of search results.  Reddit CFO Drew Vollero told investors during its earnings call on...

X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn’t want to emulate Reddit

X, formerly Twitter, could be bringing back a downvote feature for posts — something it had previously tested back in 2021, ahead of...

TechCrunch Minute: Reddit is taking a stand against AI crawlers

Reddit is taking a stand against AI companies — or at least asking them to pay up. Earlier this week, Reddit announced that it’s...

Reddit’s upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers

Reddit announced on Tuesday that it’s updating its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which tells automated web bots whether they are permitted to...