<div><div><p>Reddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform. The company’s first add-ons, available to a small number of subreddits and only to mods, will include tools for mods to more easily monitor and remove comment threads; ban spammers and remove their content; and for sports-focused subreddits, create posts that are live scoreboards, spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr tells <em>The Verge</em>.</p><p>Reddit announced the Developer Platform <a href="/2022/8/17/23310092/reddit-developer-platform-bots">in August 2022</a> as a way for developers to more easily host and develop things like apps, bots, and mod tools for Reddit. At the time, Reddit opened up a waitlist for interested developers, and although the platform is still in closed beta, Geesey-Dorr says a “handfulâ€ of moderators and bot developers have already built moderation tools that are being tested in select communities.</p><p>Geesey-Dorr declined to share a date for when the Developer Platform will be generally available but says that this beta test of its tools “will serve as a way to gather learnings, test out different functionalities of how a post add-on will be used, and stress test the platform’s stability before opening it up to more communities and moderators.â€ The company’s vision is that add-ons will eventually be available to all Reddit users.</p><p>Geesey-Dorr says Reddit’s scoreboard add-on will be available first with “soccer league communitiesâ€ and that Reddit is in conversations with “an additional handfulâ€ of other subreddits. The company is also prototyping other add-ons, like variations on polls and countdown timer posts, that it will “likelyâ€ start testing over “the next couple months,â€ according to Geesey-Dorr. </p><p>Reddit’s first Developer Platform add-ons are arriving near the end of what’s been a tumultuous year for the company. Earlier this year, after it became clear that the costs of the company’s <a href="/2023/4/18/23688463/reddit-developer-api-terms-change-monetization-ai">usage-based API pricing</a> would be too expensive for the developers of some third-party apps, many users protested and some subreddits went dark. The protests <a href="/23779477/reddit-protest-blackouts-crushed">have largely ended</a> and many third-party apps <a href="/2023/6/30/23779519/reddit-third-party-app-shut-down-apollo-sync-baconreader-api-protest">are now gone</a>, but some apps have lived on <a href="/2023/10/10/23903204/narwhal-third-party-reddit-app-price-relay-now">by offering subscriptions</a>.</p></div></div>