Reddit is in crisis as prominent moderators loudly protest the company’s treatment of developers

At midnight on Tuesday, the moderators of the Reddit community r/Gaming decided to go dark.

Dac Croach, who goes by username Dacvak, and the subreddit’s other leaders hit the private button, initiating a 48-hour shutdown for the group’s more than 37 million members, along with anyone else who tried to access the community.

They were joining a large-scale protest against Reddit, which was about to…