After the whole reddit API fiasco, I wanted a way to browse the AskHistorians subreddit on my phone without using the reddit app or website. It also bugged me to have all this valuable information on a site that might make it disappear on a whim.

So, I present to you the AskHistorians Archive. It allows you to browse past submissions to the subreddit, it’s ad-free, works on mobile, loads fast, and works without JS.

For now, it only contains some of the most recent posts up until 2022-12-31, but I’m planning to upload more over time.

I hope this is useful to some - happy to hear and implement any feedback!

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    I feel like a lot of other reference subs could use this treatment, too.

    Technical subs, particularly, would be a great target for something like this. /r/homelab is, in my experience, one of the most reliable sources for solid information when playing around with and setting up home infra, and I’d love an alternative that didn’t push Reddit’s engagement numbers up.

    • raffomania@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yes - The tool already works for any subreddit, but there’s some polishing to be done to make it work well (e.g. showing nested comments). I’m also still looking for a good way to host more posts as it’s quite a lot.

  • Tavahka@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for this! Ask Historians was the one thing that made me really hesitate to completely cut ties with Reddit.

  • StaggersAndJags@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for making this. I’ve been reading it a ton during my “break” from reddit.

    One thing I noticed is that multi-part replies aren’t captured by the archive. Here’s an example with part 2 of a comment missing: https://ask-historians-archive.netlify.app/posts/zpjnpi.html

    Anything that can be done about that, such as detecting comment chains where a person replies to their own comment?

    Other than that, this is really a superior way to browse askhistorians. There are no moderator comments to skip over, and no threads with 30+ replies that are just a sea of [deleted].

    • raffomania@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Glad you’re enjoying it, and thanks for the feedback!

      I plan on just showing all comments, I think in other cases there might be interesting follow up questions as well.