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Comment by Glench | Hacker News Reader

Are people actually leaving reddit? Or just temporarily blacking out subreddits?

I know I uninstalled Apollo this morning. The blackout is just the mild push needed to kick the habit. I'm not interested in racking up API charges for the Apollo dev. I'm not logged in anywhere else and I won't be.

Hm interesting. That's kind of you. Would love to hear from other people as well.

I just made a Chrome extension that lets you delete all your posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...

Would love to get any feedback — I'm still working on it.

My 2 cents: it'd be really good if it lets you save all the posts to an archive before deleting them. Maybe also save some context about those posts

No way I'd personally pay for increased deletions though, that seems a bit silly. Good luck though

Agreed, I'm waiting for a GDPR request to go through before deleting my content.

For anyone else looking to export before deleting - https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

If I have time this weekend, I want to build a tool that allows users to edit all their historic posts to display a message saying they've temporarily removed all posts from reddit until they institute reasonable API terms.

Ideally it'll save all the content from all the posts into a sqlite database or something, and then can be run again to restore all the content.

I don't like the idea of removing so much valuable content from the internet, but I also think Reddit is acting irresponsibly as a steward, and needs to be reminded that the content creators (aka users) are the reason their platform has the value it does in the first place.

I think that already exists, as the Power Delete Suite https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

eta: that doesn't have the restore function iirc

> Would love to hear from other people

Well I'm another who's left Reddit today, though I used RiF (aka Reddit is Fun) not Apollo. I also used to use RedReader, which afaik is not being asked to pay fees as it's a lower-volume client and Reddit wants to leave some access for visually impaired people, but despite twelve+ years of enjoying/wasting time on Reddit enough's enough and I'm gone

You posted 10 copies of your link in the last several hours. That's excessive, and users are complaining to us that you're spamming. I realize there have been a zillion reddit threads, but please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296299

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295399

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295056

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294985

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294908

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294898

Hey dang, I appreciate the feedback about this. Is it appropriate for me to post this in some of the relevant threads today? I don't want to spam, but it does seem relevant.

I suppose so, as long as you only do it in particularly relevant places, don't do it in every related thread, and it's a minority of what you're posting.

HN readers are vigilant about this kind of thing and tend to be way less permissive than we are, btw, so I would err on the side of unspamminess.

While I'm happy to hear you are leaving Reddit, please consider reinstalling Apollo until Christian is able to shut down the app. He is planning to ask folks to forgo the refund much like Twitterific and Tweetbot did[1]. He will give refunds to anyone who takes no action I believe, but if you'd like to support him you'll need to opt-in once he asks, after which you can delete the app.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific...

I don't see why I would need to take any further action if I won't be requesting a refund.

I did when they released the redesign. Took a month or so but I barely think about it now. This is just icing on the cake.

I’ve been a pretty much daily Reddit user for 12 years and I stopped using it maybe last Tuesday. I’ll keep the Apollo app until I learn how to opt out of a refund. It’s been surprisingly easy to quit. I’ve just been looking at this site and reading more.

Yes. I'm done. Uninstalled the app yesterday and I am not looking back.

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