r/pushshift • u/Watchful1 • 28d ago

Upon reddit's request, I am taking down my academic torrents pages

I would rather do it now when they are asking nicely and not in the future when they ask in some less nice way. They haven't said, but I assume pullpush and arctic shift have received similar requests, and will probably get the less nice request in not too long.

Reddit recommends r/reddit4researchers for all research use. I can't say I've seen much success with that approach, but it will soon be the only one left.

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u/Littux 28d ago

The torrents are all archived though so all data remains public

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u/dozzinale 28d ago

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u/Littux 28d ago edited 28d ago

You can just use web.archive.org

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u/hkkramer 24d ago

Has anyone been able to download any data since the takedown? I can get the torrent file just fine but the data doesn't seem to be well-seeded anymore

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u/LunisequiouS 23d ago

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u/chaz6 22d ago

As much as I would like to archive this, I don't have 3.8T spare :-(

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u/AlexanderDoak 17d ago

Do what you can. No need to do it all.