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Howdy Mods,
In the interest of keeping you informed of the ongoing API updates, weâre sharing an update on Pushshift.
TL;DR: Pushshift is in violation of our Data API Terms and has been unresponsive despite multiple outreach attempts on multiple platforms, and has not addressed their violations. Because of this, we are turning off Pushshiftâs access to Redditâs Data API, starting today. If this impacts your community, our team is available to help.
On April 18 we announced that we updated our API Terms. These updates help clarify how developers can safely and securely use Redditâs tools and services, including our APIs and our new and improved Developer Platform.
As we begin to enforce our terms, we have engaged in conversations with third parties accessing our Data API and violating our terms. While most have been responsive, Pushshift continues to be in violation of our terms and has not responded to our multiple outreach attempts.
Because of this, we have decided to revoke Pushshiftâs Data API access beginning today. We do not anticipate an immediate change in functionality, but you should expect to see some changes/degradation over time. We are planning for as many possible outcomes as we can, however, there will be things we donât know or donât have control over, so weâll be standing by if something does break unintentionally.
We understand this will cause disruption to some mods, which we hoped to avoid. While we cannot provide the exact functionality that Pushshift offers because it would be out of compliance with our terms, privacy policy, and legal requirements, our team has been working diligently to understand your usage of Pushshift functionality to provide you with alternatives within our native tools in order to supplement your moderator workflow. Some improvements we are considering include:
- Providing permalinks to user- and admin-deleted content in User Mod Log for any given user in your community. Please note that we cannot show you the user-deleted content for lawyercat reasons.
- Enhancing âremoval reasonsâ by untying them from user notifications. In other words, youâd be able to include a reason when removing content, but the notification of the removal will not be sent directly to the user whose content youâre removing. This way, you can apply removal reasons to more content (including comments) as a historical record for your mod team, and youâll have this context even if the content is later deleted.
- Updating the ban flow to allow mods to provide additional âban contextâ that may include the specific content that merited the userâs ban. This is to help in the case that you ban a user due to rule-breaking content, the user deletes that content, and then appeals to their ban.
We are already reaching out to those we know develop tools or bots that are dependent on Pushshift. If you need to reach out to us, our team is available to help.
Our team remains committed to supporting our communities and our moderators, and we appreciate everything you do for your communities.
You know who loves this? SPAMMERS.
This accomplishes nothing but further deteriorate Reddit.
Take our tools to fight spam away add eventually the subs aren't going to exist. With all the alternatives out there, this is just a really poor long-term businesses decision.
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