I think it would be great to have a archive so that the various documentation, comments and hacks / workarounds could be searched.
The reason I ask is because they block VPN traffic, restrict some content behind a login wall and I have blacklisted them from my DNS so I plan on never returning.
But I find myself lacking odd tips from the Sway community and other communities.
The archive warriors are downloading Reddit for a while already. 15.6 billion items and counting. You can help too:
It just lists name of people archiving reddit. where can I get the archived data. do I have to ask one of those people to send me a zip file?
The data is integrated into the Internet archive and available e.g. via the way back machine. Not sure if you can get the whole reddit dataset.
It’s not an archive but RedLib provides an alternative frontend which deals with most of the hostile design
Which you can use in conjunction with LibRedirect
As a sidenote, you can get around the VPN block with Redlib by just adding
safe-to the start of most reddit URLs. So like instead ofreddit.com/r/linuxor whatever you can dosafereddit.com/r/linuxand it should work without needing a login.I mean, if people here don’t like how Reddit took advantage of user comment data, why should we archive the same without consent from the people who wrote them? Legally speaking Reddit holds the copyright also.