Reddit Data API Update: Changes to Pushshift Access
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Reddit Data API Update: Changes to Pushshift Access
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Re: Reddit Data API Update: Changes to Pushshift Access
#2Well 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.
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#3The 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.
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#4The 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:
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.
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#5The 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: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe... As many users have noted, this is in many ways a betrayal,…
Not to mention they all do it better than the official app.
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#6there was a thread about RedReader earlier that may interest this same audience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767700
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
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: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe... As many users have noted, this is in many ways a betrayal,…
Not to mention they all do it better than the official app.
I've been using RIF for probably 10 years. I'd sooner browse Old Reddit on mobile than use the official app. Reddit Inc has been trying to emulate various trends, constantly running after leaders like TikTok. It feels chaotic and bloated. But those older unofficial apps have remained focused on the core, historic functionality of Reddit.
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#8So 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!).
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#9So 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! th…
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
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention they all do it better than the official app.
I've been using RIF for probably 10 years. I'd sooner browse Old Reddit on mobile than use the official app. Reddit Inc has been trying to emulate various trends, constantly running after leaders like TikTok. It feels chaotic and bloated. But those older unofficial apps have remained focused on the core, historic functionality of Reddit.
> I'd sooner browse Old Reddit on mobile than use the official app
Yeah, and they know it. They recently disabled i.reddit, I expect it won't be long until old.reddit.com get's disabled too.