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| April 1 2025 | Reddit launched r/Field, an April Fools' Day interactive game combining elements of r/place and Minesweeper. Users were randomly assigned to four teams (Flamingo, Juicebox, Lasagna, and Sunshine) and could only place their team's color (Pink, Blue, Orange, and Yellow). The game board contained hidden mines that would 'ban' players to progressively more obscure subreddits. |
| March 7 2025 | Reddit's AutoModerator system was found to be erroneously flagging the word 'Luigi' as potentially violent, including in unrelated contexts such as comments about Luigi's Mansion video game, causing disruption for moderators and users. |
| March 7 2025 | The Verge reported that Reddit's automatic moderation tool was incorrectly flagging the word 'Luigi' as 'potentially violent', including in unrelated contexts, causing issues for moderators across subreddits. |
| March 5 2025 | Reddit announced they will be issuing warnings to users who upvote 'violent content' and may consider taking additional actions against such users. |
| February 3 2025 | r/WhitePeopleTwitter was temporarily banned for 72 hours by Reddit site administrators due to a prevalence of violent content, following a screenshot of threatening comments about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk. |
| January 2025 | Reddit temporarily banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter subreddit for 'policy violations' following discussions about content moderation. |
| January 2025 | Over 100 Reddit communities banned users from posting links from X social media site in response to Elon Musk's controversial arm gesture, which critics claimed resembled a Nazi salute. |
| December 2024 | Reddit announces Reddit Answers, an AI search tool that summarizes conversations in response to user questions. |
| September 2024 | The Federal Trade Commission released a comprehensive report examining data collection practices of 9 companies, including Reddit, highlighting potential risks to user privacy and personal safety through data collection methods affecting individuals' vulnerability to identity theft, stalking, discrimination, and potential emotional and mental health impacts. |
| May 24 2024 | Reddit introduced dedicated platform features for hosting AMAs, enabling hosts to schedule and promote events, and allowing participants to RSVP. |
| May 16 2024 | Reddit reaches a deal with OpenAI to provide API access for AI model training, while receiving AI tools for moderators and users. |
| May 15 2024 | Reddit removed the dedicated login flow from the old.reddit.com domain, though site admins stated they have no plans to remove the old domain entirely. |
| April 1 2024 | Reddit had no official April Fools' Day event. r/Counter was created, which users initially mistook as the potential event, but it turned out to be an unofficial game. |
| March 21 2024 | Reddit debuted on the stock market with the ticker symbol RDDT, with a market cap of $10 billion. |
| March 20 2024 | Reddit goes public on the New York Stock Exchange, opening at $34 per share with a $6.4 billion valuation and closing at $50.44, reaching a market cap of $9.5 billion. |
| 2023 | NPR published an article suggesting that Redditors should exercise caution before accepting user-created unsourced content as fact. |
| 2023 | Reddit downsized from an office in the Mid-Market neighborhood to an office in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco. |
| November 2023 | Reddit began a comprehensive rebrand, including a new logo, typeface, brand colors, and an updated mascot Snoo, in preparation for a potential 2024 IPO. |
| October 17 2023 | Reddit announced the winding down of Moons cryptocurrency by November 8, causing a significant crash in its value of over 90%. |
| July 20 2023 | Reddit launched the third iteration of r/place, which was heavily protested by users and developers due to the ongoing API controversy and CEO Steve Huffman's decision to make third-party app development prohibitively expensive. |
| June 12 2023 | Reddit moderators initiated a protest by making their communities private or restricting posting, in response to the API pricing changes. The protest was initially planned to last until June 14. |
| May 2023 | Reddit launched Moons, a site-specific cryptocurrency for the platform. |
| May 31 2023 | Apollo developer Christian Selig announced that Reddit's new API pricing would force him to cease development of the Apollo app, sparking community outcry. |
| April 2023 | During the r/Field event, players who hit hidden mines were 'banned' and moved to sequential subreddits: r/BannedField, r/BananaField, and r/WhatIsField, with a final return to r/Field if banned from the last subreddit. |
| April 2023 | Reddit announced plans to charge large fees for its API, which had been free since 2008, forcing multiple third-party applications to shut down and threatening accessibility applications and moderation tools. |
| April 1 2023 | Reddit launched r/Field, an April Fools' Day interactive game combining elements of r/place and Minesweeper. Players were randomly assigned to four teams (Flamingo, Juicebox, Lasagna, and Sunshine) and could only place their team's specific color (Pink, Blue, Orange, and Yellow respectively) on a game board with hidden mines. |
| April 1 2023 | Reddit launched the r/schrodingers alternate reality game (ARG) for April Fools' Day. The event began with a deceptive admin post claiming no April Fools' event was happening, which secretly contained a link to the r/schrodingers subreddit. The ARG involved 10 complex clues that ultimately led participants to a subreddit post featuring a GIF of a potato connected to computers, playfully referencing Reddit users' jokes about the platform's server infrastructure. |
| April 1 2023 | Reddit conducted another iteration of the r/place collaborative pixel art experiment, continuing their annual tradition of interactive April Fools' Day events. |
| 2022 | A study revealed an abundance of unsourced and potentially harmful medical advice on Reddit, specifically regarding medical treatments for urinary tract infections. |
| 2022 | The hacker group Anonymous hacked a server hosting Chinese government websites and uploaded a meme mocking r/GenZedong on a government site promoting tourism in China. |
| 2022 | FDS was featured in a Guardian article discussing the community's perspective and approach to dating, with a podcast co-host providing commentary on the group's underlying philosophy. |
| November 15 2022 | RPAN was officially discontinued. |
| August 18 2022 | The r/PiratedGames subreddit was restored following an appeal from its moderators, one day after its initial ban. |
| August 17 2022 | Reddit banned the r/PiratedGames subreddit, which had over 300,000 subscribers, due to excessive DMCA copyright infringement claims, despite the subreddit's explicit prohibition on sharing pirated content. |
| July 7 2022 | Announced blockchain-backed Collectible Avatars, customizable NFT-like avatars created by independent artists. |
| June 2022 | Reddit banned the TumblrInAction (TiA) subreddit for promoting hate, at a time when the community had over 470,000 members. |
| April 2022 | During the r/place event, the canvas was expanded from 1000 x 1000 to 2000 x 1000 pixels on the second day, allowing for more collaborative artwork. |
| April 2022 | Before the r/place event concluded, users were restricted to placing only white pixels, effectively reverting the canvas to its original state. |
| April 2022 | On the third day of r/place, the canvas was further expanded from 2000 x 1000 to 2000 x 2000 pixels. |
| April 1 2022 | Reddit launched r/place April Fools' Day event, featuring a 1000 x 1000 pixel collaborative canvas where users could edit a single pixel's color every five minutes. The event began at 1:00 PM GMT and was scheduled to run for 87 hours. |
| April 1 2022 | Reddit repeated the r/place collaborative pixel art experiment, revisiting the successful 2017 April Fools' Day event. |
| March 23 2022 | The r/GenZedong subreddit was quarantined by Reddit for spreading disinformation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the time of quarantine, the subreddit had over 57,000 subscribers. |
| March 23 2022 | Reddit banned the r/Chodi subreddit for promoting hate speech, which had over 90,000 subscribers known for spreading Islamophobic, anti-Christian, homophobic, and misogynistic content. Following the ban, the subreddit's users migrated to Telegram. |
| March 2 2022 | Reddit administrators banned the ChongLangTV subreddit, which had over 53,000 subscribers, for 'exposing privacy of others'. The subreddit was known for extreme anti-Chinese sentiment. |
| March 1 2022 | Reddit administrators quarantined r/Russia subreddit for spreading disinformation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including false claims about Ukrainian military, leadership, and conflict dynamics. At the time of quarantine, the subreddit had over 265,000 subscribers. |
| January 2022 | The subreddit reached over 1.7 million subscribers. |
| January 2022 | A longtime r/antiwork moderator was interviewed on Fox News, which led to significant criticism from subreddit members and resulted in the moderator being asked to give up their moderation duties. |
| January 26 2022 | r/antiwork became the subreddit with the highest traffic increase among non-default front page subreddits. |
| 2021 | Slate published an article examining controversial discussions within r/aznidentity and AsianMasculinity subreddits, highlighting claims about anti-Asian racism and racial tensions. |
| 2021 | Reddit initially defended allowing conversations that 'question or disagree with popular consensus' about COVID-19, but ultimately banned the r/NoNewNormal subreddit after moderator protests, citing community interference rather than misinformation. |
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