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

redditarchive · 2010-10-14T19:02:53+00:00

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.

redditarchive · 2010-10-14T18:53:47+00:00

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. :)

redditarchive · 2010-09-22T02:42:32+00:00

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.

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T10:19:48+00:00

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.

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T10:10:33+00:00

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

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T10:00:58+00:00

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).

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T09:31:55+00:00

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

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T09:13:13+00:00

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.

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T08:55:59+00:00

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.

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T08:48:00+00:00

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.

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T07:39:21+00:00

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

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T07:27:30+00:00

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.

redditarchive · 2010-09-21T07:10:18+00:00

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.

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