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!

  • StaggersAndJags
    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].

    • @raffomaniaOPEnglish
      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.