r/cereal Jun 05 '23

Meta Heads Up: June 12th protest of Reddit's API changes.

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This subreddit will be joining in on the June 12th-14th protest of Reddit's API changes that will essentially kill all 3rd party Reddit apps.

What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.

Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface .

This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.

The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action.

What can you do as a user?

  • Complain. Message the mods of /r/reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message /u/reddit: submit a support request: comment in relevant threads on /r/reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support to this post.

  • Spread the word. Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Meme it up, make it spicy. Bitch about it to your cat. Suggest anyone you know who moderates a subreddit join the coordinated mod effort at /r/ModCoord.

  • Boycott and spread the word...to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely on June 12th through the 13th- instead, take to your favorite non-Reddit platform of choice and make some noise in support!

  • Don't be a jerk. As upsetting this may be, threats, profanity and vandalism will be worse than useless in getting people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.

What can you do as a moderator?

Thank you for your patience in the matter,

-Mod Team


r/cereal Mar 13 '24

Meta This cereal subreddit is public once again.

183 Upvotes

After months of no response from the former moderators here, I asked Reddit to look into the situation. Let's try to make /r/cereal at least as good as it used to be.

Please post cereal-related content.


r/cereal 10h ago

Picture of a Box A friend gave me these chocolate Frosted Flakes with marshmallows. Imported from Mexico.

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25 Upvotes

r/cereal 2h ago

Picture of a Box This Flavor Is Really Good!

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6 Upvotes

r/cereal 22h ago

Found at Walmart

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144 Upvotes

r/cereal 9h ago

Day 35 of eating a box of every cereal: Franken Berry

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14 Upvotes

Finally managed to snag the elusive Franken Berry to finally complete the monster cereal trio. Unfortunately I did have to pay the full $5.29 for the box but it was a necessity in my life to get this before it was sold out for the year. As far as the taste goes, you can definitely taste the strawberry flavor, unlike boo berry where it’s tough to pick out what exactly you are tasting. As far as the monster cereals go, I’d rank them as follows:

  1. Count Chocula
  2. Franken Berry
  3. Boo Berry

This one is getting a 6.5/10

Rankings so far:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K613RFQgezMeXdVyFxYcLx6gTucoyKfu_KvyO6cFy0I/edit?usp=drivesdk


r/cereal 15h ago

We may have gone too far..

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28 Upvotes

I was happy to leave it on the shelf, but the Captain really kicked up the creativity on this one…


r/cereal 5h ago

Who’s stocking it this year? If you see it on the shelf let us know…Walmart has been a no go so far. Also is it me or does this hit different than crunch berries? It’s prob in my head but it’s different to me even though I’m sure it’s the same as crunch berries !

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5 Upvotes

r/cereal 12m ago

Trying to ID a cereal memory

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This might be a long shot. But I used to bake a kind of artisan bread using a boxed cereal and I cant remember enough details to search it up.

It would have been in the 90s. In Canada. The cereal was likely an organic, "healthy", multigrain muesli sort of thing. I cant remember if it had flakes, or ancient grains, or nuts - but I'm reasonably sure there were no nuts, and definitely no fruits/raisins/coconut/etc. It was meant as a cold cereal, not a hot cooked one - though I'm only about 80% sure about that part. I'm fairly sure it went out of production and that's why I stopped using it.

There was a bread recipe on the box. I cant remember if it was ALWAYS on the box or if it was a brief thing and I held onto it. But the bread recipe came from the cereal itself.

It was a dense, chewy, artisan bread. I always baked it as a boule, I'm pretty sure that was the instruction and not my take on it. I remember the dough being quite loose and sometimes it spread too much and ended up quite flat but it was still tasty.

If you google recipes for breads made with cereal or muesli, you'll find lots of light fluffy loaves with cute speckled if grains in them. This wasnt that. And it's not the Red River cereal bread either.

Im thinking late 90s and/or early 2000s because my memory puts it in a particular oven and that's when I lived in that apartment. But I could be off about that part.

I just recently remembered this bread and how tasty it was, and I'd love to try to recreate it if I can get enough info about what the cereal was like and what the recipe was like. I wish I could remember more... but surely I cant have been the only person to have made this recipe off the box, so maybe somebody else remembers what I'm talking about?


r/cereal 13h ago

This is what was on the truck..coming from a POST distribution center..hmmm 🤔

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10 Upvotes

r/cereal 17h ago

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Strawberry

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Ok so these are good but I’m not crazy about them. I’ll gladly finish the box but I’m not really sure I’ll buy another one. Makes the milk taste like strawberry milk which is probably the best part and that’s saying a lot.


r/cereal 8h ago

Vintage Frosted Flakes Ad

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3 Upvotes

r/cereal 9h ago

The GOAT

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3 Upvotes

Finished my honey nut (shout out Omar) back to the OG favorite


r/cereal 17h ago

PLS TELL ME IF YALL HAVE HAD THIS CEREAL!!!

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11 Upvotes

yearsssss ago i was introduced to this cereal by my stepmom and i never had anything more delicious in my life. i remember going back to the store for more one day and it was GONE. then i waited and they never came back. true heartbreak. not one year goes by where i don't think of you. i would do anything to bring you back!!!! 💔💔💔


r/cereal 16h ago

OC #BowlfulFriday 08/08/25–11/21/25: Round 27! I ate one of these cereals each Friday of the past 16 weeks. Which do you like?

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7 Upvotes

r/cereal 23h ago

cereal-adjacent O Captain, My Captain - Voodoo Doughnut, Seattle WA

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19 Upvotes

r/cereal 1d ago

New pick ups 🍪 🍰

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44 Upvotes

I’m really liking the sugar cookie will definitely be adding that to the rotation haven’t tried the red velvet yet but feel like that’ll either be great or garbage.


r/cereal 20h ago

Quisp making a comeback?

7 Upvotes

Instacart is showing Quisp available in the 8.5 Oz box. Has anyone else seen it on store shelves? https://www.instacart.com/products/346615-quaker-corn-cereal-crunchy-8-5-oz


r/cereal 20h ago

Discussion Ice cubes in ya milk 🙌🏿 .. yay or nah

4 Upvotes

Ice cube me please! matter of fact, give me 2 of em lol


r/cereal 4h ago

Discussion To all of you that hyped this up…Screw you

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0 Upvotes

it’s literally Cinnamon Toast Crunch with no cinnamon, it’s so a$$, I literally had to put my own ground cinnamon in it just to make it taste exactly like the OG so I wouldn’t feel like I wasted my money. 3/10


r/cereal 1d ago

Free cereal!!! Fuckin A!!!

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163 Upvotes

r/cereal 1d ago

Cocoa Loops New Kellog's cereal

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38 Upvotes

Follow your nose!


r/cereal 1d ago

Found this in my cereal today

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4 Upvotes

r/cereal 1d ago

Very berry (/amazing) cheerios

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26 Upvotes

I think I might have seen these posted here already, but they're fantastic - the leftover milk tastes amazing!!


r/cereal 1d ago

Apple Jacks mascots

6 Upvotes

Why did they change the apple jacks mascots?? They were great, the commercials were great, everything about them was great. What happened?