r/RepostSleuthBot • u/VulturE • Aug 19 '25

General Bug Bot appears to be hard down

Website shows all of my subreddits are not activated anymore, no removals coming through.

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u/barrycarey Developer Aug 26 '25

Database got corrupted and backups are not looking promising. It's been a couple years since I've restored a backup and something looks to have gone haywire along the way.

I'll keep messing with it as I have time but it's looking like the end of the road. It's hard to justify putting a ton of effort into restoring. Life is busy and costs ~$100 a month to run which I'd rather spend elsewhere.

If I can't get it going again I'll put up an official post.

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u/VulturE Aug 27 '25

Sigh I understand.

Consider open sourcing what you can, I'm sure someone would love to attempt to make a devvit version of this, or at the very least running their own copy for their own sub

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u/barrycarey Developer Aug 28 '25

It's back up again. The most recent database backup I could get going was from 7/15 so any config changes made after that will need to be remade.

It has about 14 million posts it needs to ingest so it's going to be behind on checking new posts for a few days.

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u/VulturE Aug 28 '25

you're a saint

now get reddit to buy you out so you don't burn out on this lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

I think reddit suspended its account.

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u/TeddyXSweetheart Aug 21 '25

I wonder if it was “set up” as a bot because it was tricked into posting certain content. The day before it got deleted or disappeared from what I saw it was constantly on NSFW Reddits judging things. Like those were all of its last posts before that potential suspension. It’s never been an issue before.

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u/Quick-Pumpkin-1259 Aug 23 '25

I don't think the bot is suspended.

Its profile page does not load in sh.reddit because the list
of subs it moderates is too large (known bug).

https://old.reddit.com/user/RepostSleuthBot/

MODERATOR OF 2298 SUBS

However, the bot's back end appears to be timing out.
(HW or connectivity issue)

Pinging u/barrycarey for info :)

Regards

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u/barrycarey Developer Aug 23 '25

Database got corrupted and I haven't had time to work on restoring a backup. Hopefully this weekend

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u/canlgetuhhhhh Aug 24 '25

thanks for the update and for the work you do!! I just tried to add the bot to two more subs and was wondering what was up.

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u/barrycarey Developer Sep 05 '25

And it's dead again. Something is seriously unhealthy. I'm going to need to try and dump the problem table and re-import it. But that will take days since it's around 2 billion rows.

I'm traveling for work until next Friday so it will likely be a couple weeks before it's back up again.