I didn’t believe that reddit would “undeleted” comments. Well, now, I know that it’s true.

I deleted everything (Posts, Comments) using Shreddit a few day ago (Shreddit edits the comments with a Lorem ipsum, then delete it), but yesterday I noticed some were not deleted, trying to run Shreddit again didn’t work, they weren’t detected by Shreddit, so I thought of it as a small bug.

So I deleted every comment left manually, editing and deleting them. This was yesterday.

Now it’s tomorrow and some comment were back online. But this time Shreddit was able to delete them.

Feel free to check my profile today and come back in a few days to see if comments are coming back (I’ll monitor this closely):

https://www.reddit.com/user/Kraftingg/comments/

I’m glad we can have a thriving platform on the fediverse now, it feel more like home here!

Edit: some comment might be from reopened subreddits afterr the blackout. So maybe not totally right after all.

  • abff08f4813c@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Neither. It’s an indexing limit. Basically you can only see the 1000 most recent posts, the 1000 most upvoted posts, and the 1000 most downvoted posts in a sub at best. (But there may also be overlap, so the total number of unique posts thru all three methods is less than 3000.) So you could do part the job on different days, have others help you in splitting the requests up, etc. None of it would help bypass that limit. It’s like a limit on what you can see in the table of contents, but also if books didn’t have page numbers and you couldn’t get to a specific page unless you either found it in the TOC or else you had memorized the 19 digit access number.

    I wrote about how to overcome it (see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65260/PSA-Here-s-exactly-what-to-do-if-you-hit-the ) but this only works for the comments and posts of the past. Now that pushshift was shutdown we won’t have access to such data going forward.