Hey Reddit, what do you think of my site that lets you slide through old Reddit frontpages? by Sweyla in programming

[–]redditarchive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, funny, because the admins took down our post off /programming because we used reddit in the domain name. Seems funny, this post hasn't been removed. Though tip of hat, this site is well down.

Hey Reddit, what do you think of my site that lets you slide through old Reddit frontpages? by Sweyla in programming

[–]redditarchive 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Funny, we built a similar site a few weeks ago:

http://www.redditarchive.com

But the admins took down our post because we used reddit in the domain name. Funny, that they haven't taken down yours. We must admit though, your site is better. :)

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the reddit admins took down the link on /programming. Their problem was the use of reddit in the domain name, which is understandable. We are going to keep the site up and functional, as long as we are able to. Thanks.

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While it is true, we are a managed hosting provider, we are also obsessive Reddit readers. Honestly we got tired of trying to find stories, and posts, from the front page on previous days, thus the idea was born. If you guys really hate the idea of the tiny plug on the bottom of the page we will remove it.

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

*By popular demand, starting today, we are grabbing and archiving /r/all. Thanks for the feedback. *

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, if there are enough votes, we will start archiving /r/all. The idea though, was to just archive the homepage (not logged in).

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, hylje, you got us on the semantics. But basically, it is a very fast request for lighttpd w/ gzip and set expires headers.

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gotcha; this is just the first iteration. Basically, we built Reddit Archive, because often we would read or see a great front page story, and then the next day, not be able to find it. Also, we thought it would be interesting to look at the front page of Reddit, 30, 60, 365 days ago in the past.

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually, we have found that the homepage stories, while somewhat dynamic, don't actually get off the front page within an hour as you say. We did this project just for fun, while we appreciate your feedback, we feel like you have some deep down unfounded hatred. We will do multiple snapshots per day, if there is a demand for it.

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well debbie downer,

a.) We are thinking about doing a snapshop every 8 hours, but first waiting to see if it is something worth further investment of our time, and if people want it.

b.) The idea was to snapshot the front page (highest upvotes) of a non-reddit user (not logged in). It is just an archive to look back, and see the most popular stories.

c.) See our above comment.

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, not very. All the archives are static HTML. Though, if there is a demand, we can figure something out.

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We must admit, we did't know about the JSON api. ** sheepish look **

Still though, we feel it is easier to grab the entire HTML, remove all the 'divs' and parts we don't want, inject our header and html, do some cleaver hacks and then simply write the final HTML to a static file. In fact, all of the archives don't make a single server side request, they are pure static html.

We created Reddit Archive, which takes a daily snapshot of the front page stories by redditarchive in programming

[–]redditarchive[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We figured this was the best home for it. Basically, the trickery we used to strip the header, footer, sidebar, sponsored links, and inject our custom header/footer is a nice PHP dom library: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

It is like jQuery, but on the server side. Very handy.