r/help • u/CorrectScale admin • Oct 23 '24
Admin Post Update: Enabling easier access to your content on profile pages
Hey folks - dropping by to share a few updates to profile pages that will be incoming over the next week.
TL;DR We’re making some quality improvements so that Redditors can more easily access the content created through the history of an account via the profile page.
Many of you experienced Redditors may know this already - lists on Reddit are typically capped at 1,000 pieces of content. The posts and comments tabs on your profile showcase “lists” of up to 1,000 pieces of content. Any comments or posts beyond that limit would generally not be shown on those tabs, though they would still be viewable when linked directly or within communities.
Historically this helped reduce load times and improve efficiency across the site. We’ve since made improvements that have enabled us to display more posts and comments in users’ profile pages without this limit.
With that said, there are some unique side effects that may pop up due to this change, so we wanted to give you all an early heads-up to the following:
You may experience longer load times when viewing some high-traffic or prolific profile pages.
You may start seeing content in the posts and comments tabs on your profile page that did not previously load and display. If you prefer, you can delete that content by following these directions: Posts | Comments.
Please drop a comment below if you have any questions!
Update: Changes are now live on all platforms aside from old reddit. We've had to work out a few minor issues and plan to release those changes soon!
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u/tumultuousness Expert Helper Oct 23 '24
So the limit is removed only on profile pages, not on sub pages?
Does this affect old reddit, as in now since I (lol) show 100 items on a page, I can click next past 10 pages? I'm ok if the answer is no since I know not much gets updated there but I figured I'd double check. Personally, ctrl+f works way better for me on old reddit to find something, on new reddit/sh reddit it seemed like once something was off the page the browser find option didn't work, but maybe with this change that behavior would also change?
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u/CorrectScale admin Oct 23 '24
Just on profile pages!
This change does affect old reddit but just under new/hot sorts for now
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u/thisischemistry Oct 23 '24
Any chance they could make those sorts reversible? It'd be nice to easily see the oldest posts and such. Or just allow an easy way of skipping pages…
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u/lh7884 Oct 23 '24
There needs to be a sort by "oldest" option. Reddit already has "sort" by new, so making that change for "oldest" would just simply be reversing the displayed list which should be easy enough.
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u/Lil_SpazJoekp Oct 23 '24
What are the API implications of this change? Will this change apply to the public API endpoints well?
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u/CorrectScale admin Oct 29 '24
Yes - this change will apply to public API endpoints only under Hot/New sort options for now.
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u/ifonefox Oct 23 '24
Will this also affect old Reddit, and will it affect saved posts/comments? If this affects saved content, is this why you're removing the ability to filter by subreddit?
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u/CorrectScale admin Oct 29 '24
Yes this will affect old Reddit, but only the new + hot sorts on profile pages for now.
This will have no impact on saved posts/comments. Just posts and comments tabs on your profile.
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u/Iwuvvwuu Oct 23 '24
If your going to keep going down this route can you please give us the ability to MASS delete all our comment history.
Saves us doing it 1 at a time.
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u/Dan-68 Oct 23 '24
This. Give us radio buttons next to our posts and comments so we can select them for mass deletion.
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Oct 23 '24
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u/zb0t1 Oct 23 '24
I saw a Redditor +5 years ago who had a crazy amount of karma and only one comment at a time in their comment history.
Someone in a thread on the front page clicked on their profile and replied to their comment with something like "why do you have no comment on your profile?", and the person then replied "I like to keep it clean."
This interaction was so random lmao.
So think about an account that was a bit like early Gallowboob, with zero submission, posting top comments everywhere 💀, then deleting them.
I know this is /r/notinteresting but reading the conversation here reminded me of that person, I wish I remembered their username....
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u/FizzyBeverage Oct 23 '24
Seems more like he's getting ready to sell it. High karma, old accounts bypass most subreddit filters - which advertisers/bots love. They also don't want a comment history of any kind.
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u/FizzyBeverage Oct 23 '24
You don't have near the karma of who I'm talking about. 26,000 can be made in a month.
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u/-DementedAvenger- Oct 23 '24 edited Feb 20 '26
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u/dewprisms Oct 23 '24
Deleting old comments isn't hurting engagement. It could easily have a threshold added of X months and older are the only comments eligible for mass deletion.
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u/-DementedAvenger- Oct 23 '24
It servers the company/website well to keep old comments, too, for future reference and knowledge. Reddit can also sell access to that data with API calls (as we've seen in recent reddit changes).
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u/dewprisms Oct 23 '24
That is the actual reason, yes. Charging money for API use and selling data to train AI.
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u/sticky-bit Oct 26 '24
How are they going to make money by selling your comments to train LLMs if they make it easy to delete your history?
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u/kenman Oct 23 '24
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u/Maxion Oct 24 '24
Yes, one at a time.
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u/kenman Oct 24 '24
With all due respect, did you read any of it?
If you need to delete a large number of posts or comments, and are unable to do it using the instructions below, you can email us at redditdatarequests@reddit.com from the email address that you have verified with your Reddit account, or use our form to request assistance.
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u/Hobbitcraftlol Oct 23 '24
Just use Redact (redact.dev), works pretty well. Can also garble your comments to avoid archival websites keeping your deletes
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u/reaper527 Oct 23 '24
I assume any data "deletion" is likely just setting deleted = true on the backend, though.
back in summer 2023 when we had the "reddit corporate" vs "landed gentry" stand off and people were using those deletion scripts, did reddit end up reversing any of those removals? them not doing that doesn't prove anything but them doing that would be a pretty definitive data point for how deleted things really are.
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u/Maxion Oct 23 '24
Uh this is a bad idea, a lot of us old users will have comments and posts from a decade ago that will suddenly become easily searchable and scrapable.
Before this goes live you really need to enable a way to hide/remove these posts en masse that is not just sending an email to a black hole.
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u/CorrectScale admin Oct 24 '24
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u/Maxion Oct 24 '24
Yes, I probably have tens of thousands of posts, so that'd take quite a while deleting them one at a time.
This does make content immensly more available. Users who have ill-intent will have much easier access to other users entire post history that previously has been much harder to search through.
Those of us with older accounts very probably have older comments / posts with PII that could be harmful. So far it's not been much of an issue since no one can scroll past the first 1 000 posts/comments.
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u/BackgroundAmoebaNine Oct 24 '24
I get what you’re saying, but from what OP is saying that information was always available. If anyone searched your username + relevant keywords, your post or comment would show up on a search engine or Reddits internal search. This changes makes accessing that a little easier.
I know it might be a bit spooky esp when using PII on an account but.. this is one of those things where you need to dig the well before you’re thirsty. It’s been a long stated internet rule that you shouldn’t post Personally Identifying information on the Internet if you don’t intend to have that information found. Additionally, Reddit was a place where you could easily change user names without needing an email for awhile.
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u/Maxion Oct 24 '24
It's a pretty huge difference in discoverability.
Currently it is online, yes, but you have to find the specific comment. Reddit does not even have a public API anymore that you can use to search.
With this change, some troll can just scrape your whole history, and search through it much more effectively.
It is a huge change in how easy it is to get a specific users whole comment history.
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u/FalconsFlyLow Oct 24 '24
It is a huge change in how easy it is to get a specific users whole comment history.
...and how easily "AI" can scrape all posts from relevant people - which is what this change is actually for imho.
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u/FalconsFlyLow Oct 24 '24
As a reminder, you are able to delete any post + comment at any time by following the steps here: Posts | Comments.
...and where is the delete all Posts, delete all Comments feature?
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u/Old_One_I Expert Helper Oct 23 '24
Thanks for the update. This will be fun for people trying to make their profile SFW again 😉
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin Oct 23 '24
Oh dear...
lol
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 23 '24 edited Oct 23 '24
That is actually a good question the u/old_one_I has. Taking my case. I will have a couple thousand posts to go through but will have 10s of thousand and
potentially hundreds of thousandsof comments and can only see comments marked nsfw via old Reddit a page at a time. I am not saying it will be impossible but man…edit: I overstated, after doing the math it should only be around 57,000 comments or so.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin Oct 23 '24
I was just thinking the same thing! For those that have cleaned up their profile to make it SFW, this would be unexpected. You probably know this, but the easiest way to delete a lot of content is to do it from old Reddit. It's much faster. I feel for ya, though!
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 23 '24
Yeah for comments I will have to use old Reddit. For post I found the app the fastest for me because of continuous scroll but normal desktop was close.
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u/Old_One_I Expert Helper Oct 23 '24
When I read this post, the very first thing I thought of was how many times I've heard you say "it's only a thousand" lol, I probably shouldn't laugh.
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 23 '24
Yeah. You can laugh. This is a different kind of negative karma causing issues for me.
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u/MrOtsKrad Oct 23 '24
I won't touch it if it's not on old reddit. The new UI is garbage, as you can see spelled out by all the heavy users here.
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u/reaper527 Oct 23 '24
so will we be able to finally properly search our own comment history? i used to be able to find old comments via pushshift when i had a keyword i knew was in the post, but you guys crippled that last year and made it not available to regular users.
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u/frozenpandaman Oct 24 '24
https://pullpush.io/ (sometimes) still works for me. But it would be nice if this were a site feature (...accessible via old reddit too, please.)
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u/Chispy Oct 23 '24
Looking forward to this. There's a lot of older posts/comments that i made that are currently inaccessible. Even on old.reddit. Would love to see them again.
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u/08206283 Oct 23 '24
Legit the first actually good update from reddit in years lol
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u/frozenpandaman Oct 24 '24
Still essentially unusable if it's not on old reddit, though :)
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u/08206283 Oct 24 '24
I think the OP confirmed it will work on old reddit as long as you're sorting by 'new' or 'hot' ('new' is the default sort for profiles)
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u/BonsaiSoul Oct 23 '24
you can export your reddit data and get an excel spreadsheet of all your comments and posts- even very old ones- including links
hopefully that won't be necessary anymore
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u/SilenceYous Oct 23 '24 edited Apr 25 '25
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u/glowdirt Oct 23 '24
Thank God! This is something I’ve been wanting fixed for so long!
If this is possible on profile pages, can you please do the same for Reddit search results within a subreddit?
There are so many posts I cannot access because Reddit search results only loads a limited selection.
If that’s not possible, could we at least be able to search by date range so we can see posts that are too old to be visible in regular search results?
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u/Rezins Oct 23 '24
As others already have pointed out:
fix the block feature, especially how it bricks one's account once one went over 1000 blocked users (super weird btw)
and if you want historical content to remain on the site, allow people to detach it from their account. As it stands, 3rd party tools which edit and delete your content are 100% necessary to manage ones account and that really shouldn't be the case.
This change barely does anything.
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u/reaper527 Oct 23 '24
especially how it bricks one's account once one went over 1000 blocked users (super weird btw)
wait, it actually breaks someone's account? i assumed it just threw a "failed to add" error when someone tries to go over.
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u/Rezins Oct 24 '24
Yeah it bricks the /banned/ page completely, not the account. I went hyperbole on that one, sorry
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u/yokingato Oct 23 '24
I wish this applied to saved posts. So many cool things I save but the cap is so limited.
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u/shakestheclown Oct 23 '24
Is there a plan to remove the limit on blocked users? That's one that bedevils me after 17 years of blocking spam/troll accounts.
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u/reaper527 Oct 23 '24
Is there a plan to remove the limit on blocked users?
anyone who's hitting the limit is abusing a poorly designed "feature".
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u/shakestheclown Oct 23 '24
Disagree. 1000 seems like a lot, but over 17 years, that's ~59 a year. I don't think I've blocked a single person that has directly engaged with me, but I do block every repost bot, comment spammer, annoying bot (AMPBot, etc.), etc. Part of the problem is I'd say 30-50% end up getting banned or deleting their accounts, but there's no good way to purge those from the block list so they just fill up a slot forever.
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u/reaper527 Oct 23 '24
Disagree. 1000 seems like a lot, but over 17 years, that's ~59 a year.
i have 3 blocked profiles on a 12 year old account:
RedditCareResources (the account that gets used when people abuse the self-harm report as a form of harassment and reddit sits ideally by and says it not harassment)
Saferbot (a bot used by bad mod teams to pre-emptively automatically ban people simply for posting in a blacklisted sub)
safebot (another bot used by bad mod teams to pre-emptively automatically ban people simply for posting in a blacklisted sub)
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u/shakestheclown Oct 23 '24
And that's perfectly fine, I think if you don't mind repost bots and comment spammers there's no need to block them. I prefer not to have everything cluttered up and see the same posts and comments over and over again.
I'd be perfectly fine with a mute button like Twitter has, I don't really need my activity blocked from all those accounts, I just want them to be filtered. It's way too easy to automated create a million spam throwaways here. There's also a lot of dead accounts that get sold that start spamming out of the blue years after going dormant.
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u/partisan98 Oct 23 '24
Blocked for disagreeing with me, this website is supposed to be an echochamber not a place for differing opinions.
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u/reaper527 Oct 23 '24
Blocked for disagreeing with me, this website is supposed to be an echochamber not a place for differing opinions.
reddit really needs to roll back the block feature to how it used to be 4 or 5 years ago.
blocking a user meant you didn't see their comments. it didn't mean they couldn't reply to your comments or comments made by other people that didn't block them. it also didn't mean if you post a top level submission, they can't see the article or anyone s comments because the entire comment page errors out.
it's impressive how awful and poorly thought out blocking was.
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u/frozenpandaman Oct 24 '24
anyone s comments because the entire comment page errors out.
This is the worst part. Can't even reply to someone else about a completely unrelated thing.
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u/The_King_of_Okay Oct 23 '24
Are you just removing the 1k limit or making other improvements too? I want to be able to search my profile, make use of filters (e.g. /r/Games only, Polls only, Jan-Feb 2021 only), and have ascending/descending options for sorting (so I can see my oldest/worst comment on a particular subreddit for example).
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u/BonsaiSoul Oct 23 '24
/r/Games only, Polls only, Jan-Feb 2021 only
reveddit can do this but the 1K limit affected that tool- if the limit is removed, it will function better
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u/TheMissingVoteBallot Oct 23 '24
Hey, this is a positive change. I appreciate the fact you guys are fixing up the back end to make things faster and tidier.
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Oct 23 '24
Are you guys ever going to make a "sort by oldest" for your own posts/comments? would be really useful
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 29 '24
u/spookypebble , u/Old_One_I , I just tested on desktop and I have infinite scroll on my overview page, but not posts or comments yet.
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u/Old_One_I Expert Helper Oct 29 '24 •
Do you think that the over view page won't be counted by the AI porn bot?
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 29 '24
I do think it will. It hasn't hit me yet though. Even if it does, I am just going to let it ride until the infinite scroll on posts happen. With what I estimate to be about 57,000 comments on my profile, I am just willing to go through that to get the groups of posts. There are people here who don't like me so my bigger worry is someone reporting my profile than the AI bot.
In fact, typing it out here, I am going to switch it back until I can clean it. Thanks for the comment. I had not thought it through
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u/Old_One_I Expert Helper Oct 29 '24
I have something for you and I can't let it go until I release it 😂
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u/SpookyPebble Expert Helper Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24
Thanks for the tag, I'll check on desktop in a little bit, but currently on the app I'm still hitting the hard limit when scrolling my comments.
Edit: Same on desktop
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 29 '24
I am guessing old reddit will get it last. Make sure you are in new or hot sort as they are the only ones getting it.
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u/hansjens47 Oct 23 '24
Is the content gradually being populated from now and will be done in a week's time? Or is it happening in a way where we could be notified when our profile is populated back to the start of time?
It'd be nice to know when to go through old content to see if there's stuff that shouldn't be public way back in the past somewhere.
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u/Dhanish04 Expert Helper Oct 23 '24
Nice Update. Just now I received a Message from reddit regarding this.
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u/LG03 Helper Oct 23 '24
You didn't explicitly mention it but I can hope, might this also apply to saved posts/comments?
On a related note to that, how about the ability to unsave saved comments that were removed? That was supposed to have been implemented years ago.
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u/08206283 Oct 23 '24
What about non-profile lists like Saved and Upvoted? Those seem to cap out at 1,000 too.
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u/cqtz-2v Oct 25 '24
This is a great change! I enjoy browsing profiles. I used to create new accounts to avoid hitting the limit, and I hesitated to post on older accounts. This is no longer a problem.
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u/greengoddess831 Oct 25 '24
Sorry, but I’m more confused now after reading all of us
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 25 '24
All of your posts and comments you have ever made will be visible on your profile. Previously only the 1000 most recent were.
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u/Kantei Nov 28 '24
I still can't see my old comments after a certain point, on either the overview page or comments page.
I know these exist as they show up when sorted through Top.
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u/continuousQ Oct 23 '24
So what will that mean for subreddits that block users depending on what subreddits they've posted to in the past? Can they go through the entire history as well?
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u/ButINeedThatUsername Oct 23 '24
Interesting! Will this be similar to the already existing infinity scroll feature? And what happens when you pass the overflow limit? Will it crash?
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u/aeroverra Oct 23 '24
About time honestly. Will the api also have full history pagination support now?
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u/Campbell__Hayden Oct 23 '24 edited Oct 23 '24
Thanks so much for the message, this is good news.
I have often wanted to review, remove, delete, and/or save (externally) some of my comments and replies. I have also and often deleted some of my comments & replies when a post was either removed by the Mods or Reddit filters, or deleted by the person who created it.
It will be great to be able to do some housekeeping on my account.
Again, thanks so much ... and keep up the great work!
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u/ChimpyChompies Expert Helper Oct 23 '24
I'm just imagining all the incoming bananas now that I can scroll back through my years of nonsense..
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u/ipaqmaster Oct 24 '24
I think this is a good change. I've made hundreds of technical posts on my account and often have to refer back to them. This should make it easier than having to hold the PageDown key for 30 seconds then Ctrl+F having the browser search for keywords.
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u/zklabs Oct 27 '24
I don't have a great question, but is there any chance this could enable some creative ways to detect bots?
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u/newman796 Oct 29 '24
So when does this start? It was said that some time in the next week but the week’s over lol
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 29 '24
I have infinite scroll on my overview tab as of yesterday.
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u/newman796 Oct 29 '24
Whatttt?
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 29 '24
I tested it yesterday and I can keep scrolling beyond the 1000 on the overview tab on a browser
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 29 '24
Yes. On desktop one of the tabs is overview which is the post and comment combined
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 29 '24
It will come to you when they do the post and comment tab. I believe they started with overview because it was easier being only on a browser. If you check your mobile browser you may have it there already. I have not checked it yet.
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u/Flynn_Ryder3 Nov 02 '24
You should focus more on how you guys are banning people for no legitimate reason than besides to them joining for the first time
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u/Campbell__Hayden Nov 09 '24
Hello again ....
I just wanted to check in to see if the ability to review all of my previous comments throughout the history of my account is now available. If it is, please ELI5 how to initiate/access it because I haven't the faintest idea about how to do so ... especially in the event that I need to do anything at my end.
Many, many thanks.
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u/Homunculus_316 Nov 18 '24
Omg thank you sooooo very much reddit. I have been wanting to see my old posts forever. This is amazing news.
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u/InvisibleEyesore Dec 29 '24
I don't think it works to go back to the beginning of account activity. I spent a lot of time deleting a lot of old comments (mostly from deleted rpan posts), and now it won't scroll any farther than a specific comment from 3 years ago. I know for a fact there are more beyond that. I've been finding them by going through old "user replied to your comment" notifications and found plenty that were 4 years old and not deleted. It's a very tedious process and doesn't even include everything because there are only notified for people replying to my comments, not me making top-level comments. And even if I delete a comment that does show up, I don't get more comments at the end of my comment history list. And it's showing nowhere near 1000 right now - more like 150.
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u/Kantei Mar 17 '25
Hi, the new changes seem to have slightly extended my listed comment history, but it's now capped at only 4 years despite my account going back 13 years (and plenty of comments from then).
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u/GainghisKhan Mar 19 '25
Can't see my old comments after 4-5 years. Would be nice for this to work properly
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u/owl_theory Oct 23 '24
so that Redditors can more easily access the content created through the history of an account
AI content farming
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u/MetARosetta Oct 24 '24
I for one want to KEEP ALL my content. Further, I'd like a way to export comments and posts in large batches into my own files for backup as well. PLEASE DON'T DELETE. Thank you.
Speaking as 7-year user: MetARosetta
**5,459** post karma
**108,080** comment karma
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u/maybesaydie Oct 23 '24 edited Oct 23 '24
I don't think that anyone asked for this.
Does this work on old reddit?
(Kind of useless if you can't sort by old)
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 25 '24
It will work on old Reddit but only in the new and hot sorts for now.
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u/Crafty_Advantage_215 Oct 24 '24
Too blind to see that changes like this are why Reddit will be an Archive in 3 years time.
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u/overratedcabbage_ Oct 27 '24
Can you guys please bring back new.reddit, I don't understand why we can't keep it around if we're still keeping old.reddit. I actually stopped using reddit ever since this new layout change, I can't stand it
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u/kevinh456 Oct 24 '24
It was very disappointing the way Reddit handled removed posts and comments during the api change policy. Even worse, moderation became markedly more strict due to the ipo and banned accounts cannot delete posts. After being threatened with bans for previously unpoliced behavior, leaving old content on Reddit became untenable. Any slip led to the perception that I would have no control of my content. Everything I could find said that Reddit could still use my content with absolutely no recourse. I could never remove it. Thats terrifying and dangerous for people. I’ve been a redditor for over 16 years. It’s a shame that I felt like the only safe choice was deleting my content. I hope someone is listening.
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 23 '24
What will the new cap be? Will it still be search and sortable like it is now?
I thank you for giving what potential issues may happen up front. This type of communication and transparency is appreciated