Reddit Faces Developer Blowback, Says It Needs to Be Paid Fairly

A number of Reddit forums plan to go dark for two days later this month to protest the company’s decision to increase prices for third-party app developers.

One developer, who makes a Reddit Inc. app called Apollo, said that under the new pricing policy he would have to pay Reddit $20 million a year to continue running the app as-is.

Reddit’s move comes after Twitter Inc. announced in February that the company would no longer support free access to its application programming interface, or API. Twitter instead now offers pricing tiers based on usage.

Reddit spokesman Tim Rathschmidt said the company ...