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Representing threaded comments through an API is often implemented terribly. HN's API in that regard is absolutely bonkers. Lobsters probably has the most conve
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
Representing threaded comments through an API is often implemented terribly. HN's API in that regard is absolutely bonkers. Lobsters probably has the most convenient API, returning the full comment tree in the response. As long as you're willing to do a bit of tree traversal, the Reddit API is fine.
I also don't really think Reddit will be dropping API support any time soon. There's been no indications in that direction except for a change in the unauthenticated rate limit that was made a couple years back.
- throwaway81523 5y ago> As long as you're willing to do a bit of tree traversal, the Reddit API is fine. But then you end up having to make 100s of queries per thread, getting just a few comments each time.