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Revision as of 15:27, 3 July 2015

reddit
reddit home page as seen on March 26, 2013
reddit home page as seen on March 26, 2013
URL http://www.reddit.com/
Status Endangered
Archiving status Template:Needs archiving
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #deaddit (on hackint)

reddit is a content aggregator and social bookmarking service similar to the likes of Digg. Users can submit links, submit text posts, vote and comment on submissions in communities called "subreddits". It received considerable attention from its twelve hour SOPA blackout early in January of 2012.

Vital signs

Appears stable, though a small to medium size team is a concern.

Update (6/10/15): the admins carried out bannings of several subreddits claiming they were harassing people, the most notable of which was /r/fatpeoplehate. This has instilled some fear, uncertainty, and doubt in some part of the userbase, with a few claiming that reddit will soon become what Digg is now: nearly dead.

Extremely endangered - many subreddits are picketing after the firing of a reddit employee named Victoria by turning themselves private or restricting submissions.

Data liberation

Currently (as of March 26, 2013), users can only see up to 1,000 posts and comments on a profile page. However, it was stated by admin "spladug" that older comments and posts are still in the database. spladug also states that the team is in favor for retrieving dumps of a user's data, but that the task would be taxing on the servers. Since this comment was posted, there appears to have been no progress on a dump system. Archiving would be nearly impossible using the old-fashioned way (without wget) if things do wind up FUBAR in the future because of this limitation.

No further progress appears to have been made since then as of June 2015.

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