The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
Eh, who knows. You can buy a news story now so we’ll never really know much of the truth. I know I haven’t been back, and I don’t even care about API stuff, I just disliked the way the CEO was so dismissive of what the reader/user base wanted.