Instagram API limit reduced to 200 from 5000

Does anyone have any clue why Instagram has reduced their hourly API request limit from 5000 to just 200? Is this a bug or the new normal? Do instagram partners undergo the same lowering of rate limit?

The page on rate limits in the documentation is a broken link.

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To summarize, Basically Instagram API is shutting down faster than speed of light right now. Migrate your apps to FB-instagram-API to keep your business or apps running

Yes, from what I think are updated Facebook docs.

>Rate Limiting > >The Instagram API uses the same rate limiting as the Graph API (200 calls per user per hour) with one exception: the /media/comments edge limits writes to 60 writes per user per hour. Please refer to the Graph API's rate limiting documentation for more information.

Facebook documentation

Seems to be in relation to trying to clean up privacy and user data usage.

TechCrunch article - https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/instagram-api-limit/

> Without warning, Instagram has broken many of the unofficial apps > built on its platform. This weekend it surprised developers with a > massive reduction in how much data they can pull from the Instagram > API, shrinking the API limit from 5,000 to 200 calls per user per > hour. Apps that help people figure out if their followers follow them > back or interact with them, analyze their audiences or find relevant > hashtags are now quickly running into their API limits, leading to > broken functionality and pissed off users. > > Two sources confirmed the new limits to TechCrunch, and developers are > complaining about the situation on StackOverflow.