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How HN took it
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful way to self-host archives
From 1 comment
Cool way to self-host archives. What I'd really like is a plugin that automatically pulls from archives somewhere and replaces deleted comments and those bot-overwritten comments…
Aurornis on HN
Neat project, nice work
From 1 comment
This is a neat project, nice work. You've probably come across this already but there are alternative archives to PushShift that may have differing sets of posts and comments…
diggings on HN
Objections
Docker setup had missing files and failed on first try
From 2 comments
I tried spinning up the local approach with docker compose, but it fails. There's no `.env.example` file to copy from. And even if the env vars are set manually, there are issues…
alcroito on HNCheers. I checked the updated steps. This is still missing creating the `output/.postgres-data` dir, without which docker compose refuses to start. After creating that manually,…
alcroito on HN
Archive contains large amounts of offensive content
From 1 comment
Opened the live demo, went into programming subreddit, felt like I was showered with liquid shit. I tend to forget what kind of edgelord hellhole Reddit was (and stil is…
blks on HN
Data may be used to train AI without paying creators
From 2 comments
Did you pay all the people who created its content?
syngrog66 on HNI have no problem with this being downloaded for personal use, in fact that's a good thing. But of course we both know it'll be used to train AI.
devilsdata on HN
Requests
Plugin to restore deleted or overwritten comments from other archives
From 1 comment
Cool way to self-host archives. What I'd really like is a plugin that automatically pulls from archives somewhere and replaces deleted comments and those bot-overwritten comments…
Aurornis on HN
Docker compose setup
From 1 comment
Is there a docker compose?
tetrisgm on HN
Monthly update support from Arctic Shift dumps
From 1 comment
the data from 2025-12 has been released already, it is usually released every month, it just needs to be split and reprocessed for 2025 by watchful1. i will probably eventually…
19-84 on HN
Questions
Is the dataset updated on a regular cadence?
From 1 comment
Very cool project! Quick question: is the underlying Pushshift dataset updated with new Reddit data on any regular cadence (daily/weekly/monthly), or is this essentially a fixed…
feconroses on HN
Does the data include private subreddits?
From 1 comment
Is there any way to check if a subreddit that was made private (2-3 years ago) is in the data dump?
bkovacev on HN
Is the data web scraped and is Reddit ok with that?
From 1 comment
Is data web scrapped? Is reddit ok with that?..
riku_iki on HN
Alternatives named
Arctic Shift
From 1 comment
This is a neat project, nice work. You've probably come across this already but there are alternative archives to PushShift that may have differing sets of posts and comments…
diggings on HN
PullPush
From 1 comment
This is a neat project, nice work. You've probably come across this already but there are alternative archives to PushShift that may have differing sets of posts and comments…
diggings on HN
Reddit Uncensored
From 1 comment
https://github.com/Fubs/reddit-uncensored
Gander5739 on HN