Comment by lift_ticket83 on 05/06/2023 at 19:45 UTC*

-41 upvotes, 6 direct replies (showing 6)

View submission: API Updates & Questions

We're working with Pushshift to ensure moderators continue to have access to Pushshift. You can see their announcement here[1]. And ours here[2].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/13w6j20/advancing_communityled_moderation_an_update_on/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update_continued_access_to_our_api_for/

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Comment by TracingWoodgrains at 05/06/2023 at 21:26 UTC

66 upvotes, 1 direct replies

As /u/MCRusher said, bringing it back for moderation purposes only misses a huge part of its value. I reference old comments regularly, and Pushshift-based tools were the only realistic way to search them without maintaining a full local archive. Its removal massively degrades the user experience on this site *even if* it's brought back in limited capacity for moderation purposes.

Setting aside moderation or archival utility in seeing deleted/removed comments, unless reddit provides a native way to search comments in the same way Pushshift enabled, restricting it to mod actions only massively degrades the utility of this site as a hub for writing that can be found for more than a few hours after posting.

Comment by MCRusher at 05/06/2023 at 20:53 UTC

84 upvotes, 0 direct replies

moderators aren't the only ones who have a reason to use pushshift.

Reddit doesn't even have a search feature for your old posts/comments/threads, pushshift is the only time-efficient way to even find them for any user, mod or not.

Comment by cqtz-2v at 05/06/2023 at 21:15 UTC

26 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Will reddit upgrade its search feature now that access to Pushshift is limited? Search shows a limited number of results (250 for posts on old reddit, and I don't know the exact limit for comment search on new reddit) and does not allow you to specify the date range. In addition, comments made over ~3 years ago are not indexed. Reddit search tools that relied on Pushshift provided this functionality, but now searching has become much more difficult.

Comment by Georgy_K_Zhukov at 05/06/2023 at 20:54 UTC

22 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Will search sites that rely on push shift, like Camas, be back online under this? Last I checked there was not a definitive statement on this.