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    From Daniel@me@sc1f1dan.com to comp.infosystems.gopher on Mon Dec 1 21:01:53 2025
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    Anyone know what's up with gopherddit?

    I wanted to check in on some threads and it has been offline for a bit.

    D
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  • From John McCue@jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid to comp.infosystems.gopher on Tue Dec 2 19:43:59 2025
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    Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
    Anyone know what's up with gopherddit?

    I wanted to check in on some threads and it has been offline for a bit.

    D
    finger calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw

    No, but I have to wonder if reddit is blocking gopherddit
    due to AI scraping. From what I heard reddit wants to get
    paid for AI and maybe other sites accessing their content.

    FWIW, I cannot get to gopherddit either.
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  • From Daniel@me@sc1f1dan.com to comp.infosystems.gopher on Tue Dec 2 19:43:54 2025
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    John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> writes:

    Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
    Anyone know what's up with gopherddit?

    I wanted to check in on some threads and it has been offline for a bit.

    D
    finger calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw

    No, but I have to wonder if reddit is blocking gopherddit
    due to AI scraping. From what I heard reddit wants to get
    paid for AI and maybe other sites accessing their content.

    FWIW, I cannot get to gopherddit either.

    I always figured he was using the API. Last I checked they had a public
    API document somewhere. My collaborator setup his own 'reddit' view with
    the old style using an API.

    It could also be that I'm remembering wrong. That NEVER happens.

    D
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  • From Fu Bar@foo@fu.bar to comp.infosystems.gopher on Sun Dec 7 00:05:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gopher

    On Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:01:53 -0800, Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:

    Anyone know what's up with gopherddit?

    I wanted to check in on some threads and it has been offline for a bit.

    D
    finger calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw


    It has been unusable off-line for quite some time now, and unusable for quite some time before that.

    I seem to recall reddit changing their API such that many alternative readers no longer worked. It's really too bad but that's life. At least I can still sort of use reddit via the Tor browser.

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  • From Daniel@me@sc1f1dan.com to comp.infosystems.gopher on Sat Dec 6 23:08:19 2025
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    Fu Bar <foo@fu.bar> writes:

    On Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:01:53 -0800, Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:

    Anyone know what's up with gopherddit?

    I wanted to check in on some threads and it has been offline for a bit.

    D
    finger calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw


    It has been unusable off-line for quite some time now, and unusable
    for quite some time before that.

    I seem to recall reddit changing their API such that many alternative
    readers no longer worked. It's really too bad but that's life. At
    least I can still sort of use reddit via the Tor browser.

    I was going to say 'too bad.' But, seeing as how reddit comment areas
    are now mostly bots, it isn't a big loss after all.

    We always have the metafilter gopher.

    D
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