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View submission: AskHistorians and uncertainty surrounding the future of API access
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.
Comment by nachof at 09/06/2023 at 14:17 UTC
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FWIW, I was just on a thread in Mastodon and there's a consensus among people I interact with there that "we'll go wherever /r/AskHistorians goes". Sure, huge selection bias, but still.