{"id":39424,"date":"2023-06-29T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=39424"},"modified":"2023-07-04T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:11:15","slug":"minecraft-developer-cut-off-reddit-over-api-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/minecraft-developer-cut-off-reddit-over-api-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft developer cut off Reddit over API changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">Minecraft developer Mojang has announced that it will no longer be posting official content to Reddit. The decision comes in response to Reddit&#8217;s recent changes to its API, which have led to protests from third-party developers and users.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">In a post on the Minecraft subreddit, Mojang developer sliced lime said that the company &#8220;no longer feels that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer [its] players to.&#8221; They added that the changes to the API have made it &#8220;difficult and sometimes impossible&#8221; for Mojang to communicate with its players through Reddit.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">Mojang&#8217;s decision to depart Reddit is likely to be interpreted as a protest over Reddit&#8217;s API modifications. It&#8217;s also uncertain whether Mojang&#8217;s departure from Reddit will be permanent. According to Mojang, if Reddit alters its policies, it is &#8220;open to reconsidering&#8221; its position.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">In the meanwhile, Mojang has said that official updates and information may still be found on its website and social media outlets.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/minecrafts-devs-exit-its-7-million-strong-subreddit-after-reddits-ham-fisted-crackdown-on-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PCGamer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft developer Mojang has announced that it will no longer be posting official content to Reddit. The decision comes in response to Reddit&#8217;s recent changes to its API, which have led to protests from third-party developers and users. In a post on the Minecraft subreddit, Mojang developer sliced lime said that the company &#8220;no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[802,619],"class_list":["post-39424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-api","tag-reddit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39426,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39424\/revisions\/39426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}