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View submission: Update on Pushshift
Appreciate all the hard work, and hope there will be a way to continue it.
Will Pushshift be able to continue to archive content from NSFW communities, or will Reddit be forcing you to eliminate that from your service too? A lot of subs use access to that data for spam control, statistics, research, or even simply to exclude NSFW posters from spaces used by minors, and Reddit has thus far been pretty silent on whether they'll allow such legitimate uses after the API changes.
Assuming Reddit doesn't shut you down, will any progress be made on fixing the major search bugs and breakage that make the service largely useless for searching by author or query text? The majority of our tools using PS have not worked for many months, due to most searches returning either vast numbers of results not matching the query entered, or nothing at all.
Comment by Stuck_In_the_Matrix at 02/05/2023 at 07:06 UTC
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I will definitely update the community on what things will change after we speak with the Reddit team. Obviously I will try and make a case for maintaining a large majority of what we provide. Hopefully they see the value that Pushshift has brought to Reddit by helping countless mods (and that's just things internal to Reddit).