

For indie bands, this might mean a neutral palette of muted colors. There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all … But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free. Only pay if you’re 100 happy Get started Band logo best practices Color Choose a color that reflects your music genre and resonates with your bands fans. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” he reiterated. Huffman told The Times that he believes Reddit data is particularly valuable because it’s continuously updated. As of 2019, Reddit had over 430 million monthly active users across more than 1.2 million special interest communities, 138,000 are active. The move comes as Reddit looks for ways to monetize its vast array of user-generated content, which as The Times notes has been increasingly used to train high-profile, text-generating machine learning models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up,” Huffman said. As reported by The New York Times, Reddit’s API will remain free to developers who want to build apps and bots that help people use Reddit, as well as to researchers who wish to study Reddit for strictly academic or noncommercial purposes.īut companies that “crawl” Reddit for data and “don’t return any of that value” to users will have to pay up,” Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman told The Times.

Following on the heels of Twitter’s decision to restrict third-party access to its data, Reddit today announced that it’ll begin charging for use of its API.
