hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

  • catsup@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    oh man I’d love to run that but I feel it’d be wrong to purge all of the technical answers I’ve posted over the years. I think it’s better to pass on that one

    • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      it had an option to export your comments into a .csv, so theoretically you could post them elsewhere if you want

      but that could be a lot of work so I understand just leaving comments as they are

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Archiving copies of my Reddit history would be nice, but here’s a somewhat idiotic question.

        I use commas in copy a lot, so a CSV file sounds like a nightmare. How’s that handled?

        • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          so I just looked at the .csv it spat out, it encloses everything in quotes. here is what it looks like with the actual details changed:

          “Title”,“Body”,“Permalink”,“Score”,“Timestamp UTC”,“Actions”,

          “”,“example comment start, example comment middle, example comment end”,“https…/”,“2”,“1686084708”,"deleted ",

          HOWEVER, looking at this .csv I don’t think it actually exported all of my comments. I don’t really care about saving my reddit comments but I’m 99% sure it is missing my oldest comments from this account so use at your own risk I suppose

          it did a wonderful job of deleting everything though, my account looks totally empty from the profile page

        • Cipher@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          Csv is not always comma delimited. It could also be delimited with a tab, semicolon, or pipe (|)

          • T0RB1T@beehaw.org
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            1 year ago

            Isn’t a tab delimeted spreadsheet normally called a TSV, as in “Tab-Separated Values”?

            Isn’t CSV literally Comma-Separated Values?

            Sorry, pedantry doesn’t die.

            • Cipher@beehaw.org
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              1 year ago

              A little bit yes, a little bit no

              Tab delimited csv are sometimes called tsv, but just as often you’ll see csv (tab delimited) as a file type option

              See the wiki section on standardization for details.

              Csv currently includes the following delimiters:

              Comma, space, tab, pipe, or semicolon

    • EponymousBosh@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      You can filter by subreddit in Power Suite Delete, so if your tech answers are in specific subs, you can leave those alone and delete everything else