API violations aside, pushshift would have allowed developers to side step the reddit api restrictions anyway so I don't know how this relationship could have continued.
It's been awhile since I used one, but there were a bunch of sites that would "undelete" reddit comments. Which is super helpful because redditors seem to have a habit of retroactively deleting everything they posted, and deleted comments sometimes answer some question you're trying to figure out (e.g. (someone asks my question) -> [deleted comment] -> thanks! that fixed it!).
You can also search your own username and see what has been 'removed' by mods - much easier than signing out of your account and trying to find content that isn't there
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
As many users have noted, this is in many ways a betrayal, of both users and developers, since these other apps were the first to provide mobile functionality for Reddit.
I was going to use Pushshift to query Reddit posts with "devops" and "agile" in same body to talk about the top five things "DevOps people" hate about Agile and how Agilistas can fix them.
I'm also using Algolia to do the same, but for HN.
I made the code and tests are passing for both clients, but life got in the way and I haven't integrated them yet.
Damn.
I kind of figured that Pushshift wouldn't survive Reddit's API changes, but sucks that this happened so suddenly.
This is gonna fuck over a lot of people.
