Tell him it’ll be quicker and cheaper than flying to the data centers and pulling out cables by hand before hiring a random moving company to move servers with HDDs in them.

Realistically, when you’re operating at Reddit’s scale, you’re probably keeping a history of each comment for analytics purposes.

There’s actually legal precedent against scrapping a website through unofficial channels, even if the information is private. But basically, if you scrape a website and hinder their ability to operate, it falls under “virtual trespassing”.

I’m assuming it would be even worse now that everyone is using the cloud and that scrapping their site would cause a noticeable increase in resource cost (and thus, directly cost them more money because of cloud usage fees).

It’s why APIs are such a big deal. They provide you with an official, controlled, entry point to a platform’s data.

My favorite part about New Teams is when it kept telling me I was forced to move from Old Teams to New Teams because our IT department was pushing the update. Cut to everyone in IT being confused as fuck because no they fucking weren’t.

6M vertex spheres here we come!