Well that's not surprising, PushShift is probably the biggest / most common way to get realtime access to reddit.
API violations aside, pushshift would have allowed developers to side step the reddit api restrictions anyway so I don't know how this relationship could have continued.
So does this mean no more looking at deleted comments?
It's been awhile since I used one, but there were a bunch of sites that would "undelete" reddit comments. Which is super helpful because redditors seem to have a habit of retroactively deleting everything they posted, and deleted comments sometimes answer some question you're trying to figure out (e.g. (someone asks my question) -> [deleted comment] -> thanks! that fixed it!).
you can change a reddit URL to reveddit.com and it works pretty well (deleted comments are brown)
You can also search your own username and see what has been 'removed' by mods - much easier than signing out of your account and trying to find content that isn't there
The Reddit API team are so absolutely awful at communication or thinking about the consequences of their actions. The next ninety days are going to be a catastrophe.
It's been frustrating to read how Reddit's API changes are affecting the unofficial mobile apps for Reddit. Seriously has me questioning whether I want to continue using the platform at all. The developer for Apollo posted a lengthy thread 12 days ago about how this is going to affect those apps:
As many users have noted, this is in many ways a betrayal, of both users and developers, since these other apps were the first to provide mobile functionality for Reddit.
This is probably going to be Reddit's Digg moment for me. The sad thing is there isn't really a suitable replacement available. HN is the closest experience to early Reddit and I wouldn't be surprised if the site's traffic ramps up noticeably over the next couple months.
damn this LITERALLY fucked up a talk I've been creating that I'm giving in July.
I was going to use Pushshift to query Reddit posts with "devops" and "agile" in same body to talk about the top five things "DevOps people" hate about Agile and how Agilistas can fix them.
I'm also using Algolia to do the same, but for HN.
I made the code and tests are passing for both clients, but life got in the way and I haven't integrated them yet.
Damn.
I kind of figured that Pushshift wouldn't survive Reddit's API changes, but sucks that this happened so suddenly.
edude03|2 years ago
API violations aside, pushshift would have allowed developers to side step the reddit api restrictions anyway so I don't know how this relationship could have continued.
tivert|2 years ago
It's been awhile since I used one, but there were a bunch of sites that would "undelete" reddit comments. Which is super helpful because redditors seem to have a habit of retroactively deleting everything they posted, and deleted comments sometimes answer some question you're trying to figure out (e.g. (someone asks my question) -> [deleted comment] -> thanks! that fixed it!).
arprocter|2 years ago
You can also search your own username and see what has been 'removed' by mods - much easier than signing out of your account and trying to find content that isn't there
nunez|2 years ago
Mindwipe|2 years ago
murphyslab|2 years ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
As many users have noted, this is in many ways a betrayal, of both users and developers, since these other apps were the first to provide mobile functionality for Reddit.
workethics|2 years ago
anaganisk|2 years ago
nunez|2 years ago
I was going to use Pushshift to query Reddit posts with "devops" and "agile" in same body to talk about the top five things "DevOps people" hate about Agile and how Agilistas can fix them.
I'm also using Algolia to do the same, but for HN.
I made the code and tests are passing for both clients, but life got in the way and I haven't integrated them yet.
Damn.
I kind of figured that Pushshift wouldn't survive Reddit's API changes, but sucks that this happened so suddenly.
This is gonna fuck over a lot of people.
tmaly|2 years ago
mdaniel|2 years ago