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View submission: AskHistorians and uncertainty surrounding the future of API access
I would definitely be happy to switch to another site to continue having access to the content and to support the team behind it.
As it is, most of my interests areas find that serious quality discussion, sharing and exchanges thrive better in specific specialised forums or platforms.
It's as if the internet is going back to the days of php forums and VB boards of the late 90s and early 2000s (a development that may make a worthy AskHistorians question even heh).
And judging by Redditors' outpour of support for their favourite subs and for the protest, and judging by the wonderful response received on the earlier AskHistorians thank-you thread by the mods, I feel there's a good chance many of us will switch platforms or take on another just to continue having access to the wonderful content and people here.
If there's a way to export all the content from here and post it on another platform, that would be the cherry on top of the cake.
Comment by jschooltiger at 07/06/2023 at 13:45 UTC
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We really do appreciate people such as yourself who are committed to our mission here -- it's just that we don't *know* how many people there are such as yourself such that we'd be comfortable moving off Reddit. For all of its flaws, this site provides us an enormous platform for doing public history, without cost to us (other than the immense unpaid labor we do maintaining it); moving offsite has financial and audience penalties that are potentially very difficult to sustain.