In a Reddit post last month, CEO Steve Huffman had announced, “Effective July 5, 2023, we will limit access to mature content via our Data API as part of an ongoing effort to provide guardrails to how explicit content and communities on Reddit are discovered and viewed,'.Huffman had further noted that the change in Data API will not impact any moderator bots or extensions.Ī report by Vice noted that Reddit's move is aimed at forcing users to adopt the official Reddit app instead of third-party apps. Users will now have to log in to the official Reddit app to view explicit content. The company's CEO Steve Huffman announced last month that access to mature content via third-party apps would no longer work as of July 5. To recall, Reddit has blocked access to mature content on the platform via third-party apps. However, it's important to note that live chats before 2023 will still be unavailable, as they were introduced with the 2018 version and are not accessible on the current platform. Additionally, they can access some older inbox messages by using the previous version of Reddit. Furthermore, the report adds that Reddit users now have the option to recover certain old chats by submitting an online data request through a form.
