If you ever wanted to search something on Reddit but didn’t want to use Reddit or if you wanted to look back on your post/comment history, now you can again!
Pullpush is the spiritual successor of Pushshift for those who had use Pushshift before.
If you ever wanted to search something on Reddit but didn’t want to use Reddit or if you wanted to look back on your post/comment history, now you can again!
Pullpush is the spiritual successor of Pushshift for those who had use Pushshift before.
Ah yeah I remember this. I also remember a few of the pushshift devs getting butthurt that pullpush forked their source code and “stole” it, despite the license they use explicitly allowing that. Look, if you don’t want people reusing your code then don’t publish it somewhere publicly accessible under a license that allows reuse.
This SubredditDrama thread touches on it, just so no one thinks I’m talking out my ass.
The subredditDrama post and the original AMA post is mostly about how unprofessional and hostile the new PullPush person was, and it looks like a lot of the comments were removed too.
I still need to read more about what actually happened, but it’s definitely possible to be unprofessional/toxic while still doing something that you’re legally allowed to do (under that license).
That was my take on it. Nothing I read indicated that the Pushpull devs had done anything wrong per se, other than being bad at PR and the selection of someone to do said PR.
On the other hand, the sentiment coming from the Pushshift side was staggering to me. I mean the licensing wasn’t even ambiguous, and who makes their source code publicly available and then complains about someone using it?