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If you're nuking your old reddit content, this might be important. For me, the reddit history visible on the website was far less comprehensive than the API could access. (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by cde@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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If you're nuking your old reddit content, this might be important. For me, the reddit history visible on the website was far less comprehensive than the API could access.

As a 10+ year redditor, I would sometimes go back through my profile and delete stale or irrelevant content. Deciding to try a faster approach this week, I installed Redact (available at redact dot dev, or on the Google Play store). It lets you bulk delete, or preview things first, which I wanted to do in case there was anything worth preserving.

When scanning posts/comments, it first says it's sorting by new, then hot, then controversial.

The "new" results were the same as I could see on my profile, but then the "hot" and "controversial" scans found page after page of comments that I couldn't see on my u/ page. There were 50 results per page, and I didn't keep an accurate count, but I removed at least 1000 comments, mostly from 2013-2018, via the API.

No idea how many people this could help, so it seemed like a worthwhile first post on kbin.

(Also, hello!)

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[–] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I used the old powerdeletesuite script to edit the comments, it worked for most of them.

[–] anon@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I just posted a similar story and a kind soul led me to your post. My story correlates well enough with yours.