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Last active September 11, 2023 11:03
How to migrate, not nuke, your Reddit content

I edited my Reddit comments using a version of Power Delete Suite that I modified to do the following:

  • Include a patch by james2432 on GitHub to add a 5 second delay between every write to avoid running into Reddit's (pre-7/1/23) API limits.
  • Backup comments and self-post text as base64 instead of raw text so that the formatting can be restored.
  • Include the URI-encoded permalink in the edited comment to allow deep links to the comment itself in the mirror. To use this, enable the "Edit comments / self posts" option and put %encoded_permalink% somewhere in your text.

My fork is available here. If you want to do this too, make sure to run this scrip