Part of me is sad that quality documentation is going to be memory holed by enough subreddits staying dark after the 14th instead of restricting submissions, and bandwagoning dolts erasing their accounts so they can feel like they're hurting Reddit's profits. The other part thinks this is a karmic lesson in tolerating a centralized platform with knowledge, along with technical and business design decisions that encourage L.C.D behavior (a.k.a another Eternal September). Plus, whats with the lack of permanent archiving from when pushshift.io was functioning?
I opened the torrent to download of handful piracy archives, aka the only thing of value on that platform (small hyperbole), in case they inevitably get shuttered one day.
Not that there's anything worth pirating in the 1st place these days, but it's information that needs to be kept alive.
Thanks. That's more inconvenient than a pushshift front-end, but that's a minor nitpick to having valuable data feasibly salvaged. I'll just have to accept that more comments I've saved are gonna be lost sooner than I would have liked.
Part of me is sad that quality documentation is going to be memory holed by enough subreddits staying dark after the 14th instead of restricting submissions, and bandwagoning dolts erasing their accounts so they can feel like they're hurting Reddit's profits. The other part thinks this is a karmic lesson in tolerating a centralized platform with knowledge, along with technical and business design decisions that encourage L.C.D behavior (a.k.a another Eternal September). Plus, whats with the lack of permanent archiving from when pushshift.io was functioning?
There's a dump here of Top 20K subs - https://archive.is/izNHS | https://old.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/11ef9if/separate_dump_files_for_the_top_20k_subreddits/
I opened the torrent to download of handful piracy archives, aka the only thing of value on that platform (small hyperbole), in case they inevitably get shuttered one day.
Not that there's anything worth pirating in the 1st place these days, but it's information that needs to be kept alive.
Thanks. That's more inconvenient than a pushshift front-end, but that's a minor nitpick to having valuable data feasibly salvaged. I'll just have to accept that more comments I've saved are gonna be lost sooner than I would have liked.