Wait really? Is there a recommended extension for this?

Big spike in comments/posts this AM :/

https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

it could have been done much better.

Care to expand on this point?

I’m presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit’s,

Eg:

/post/{title}-{title_id}

/post/{title}-{title_id}/comments

Etc

Yep! Although it is too bad that when you sesrch for reddit alternstives, that lemmy doesn’t come up.

Absolutely. The value from the knowledge that I’ve gained from reddit is intangible. It will be next to impossible for me to not use it as reference material in the future. I mean we’re talking about close to 2 decades of crowdsourced information.

Being able to filter out bad information with downvotes was also amazing, and part of the reason I will most likely be moving away from beehaw communities (no downvotes, wtf?? trying to be youtube, eh? 🤣 )

It will still be a useful repository of knowledge. It’s going to be a hard transition, most of the time when I google something I need to append site:reddit.com, to get a useful answer

Note: you will most likely still be able to view from mobile browser via teddit even after the api cutoff date

I’m not sure if anything could at this point. The large amount of users has resulted in a lot lower quality of posts.

404 wouldn’t be the right status code, 403 would be more suitable.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status#client_error_responses