It is unfortunate that Pushshift's owner admitted he seemed overwhelmed working on the project as a solo individual and decided to stop communicating with everybody including the admins of reddit.

Since reddit is trying for an IPO and thus lawyers and execs looking to purge or exploit everything legacy it is hard to say how the negotiations would of went, but I'd imagine the terms would of impacted pushshifts functionality or been so unfavorable it would of shutdown anyway.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/135cyzk/update_o...