Tell HN: Teddit has been de facto shut down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725903

by housemusicfan • 3 years ago

54 19 3 years ago

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It appears that Teddit has been effectively shut down via extreme rate limits by Reddit rendering the app unusable. HTTP Error 429 is now returned nearly 100% of the time.

jneumann004• 3 years ago

Same with libreddit. It was fun while it lasted.

bezier-curve• 3 years ago

I made a user script that alternates between teddit instances on error responses. It's quick and dirty, but does the job.

https://pastebin.com/zFJ5nb42

s777• 3 years ago

The Libredirect plugin also redirects to various instances you can select (although not automatically with error responses), both with Teddit/Libreddit and a bunch of other services like Nitter, Invidious, and Anonymous Overflow.

(It would actually be cool if this sort of error detecting was added to Libredirect so the user wouldn't have to keep clicking "switch instance" when it gets rate limited.)

zug_zug• 3 years ago

Too bad. What teddit needs is a way to use the user's ips to call reddit (and then they cache it every 5m), maybe a browser plugin or something.

add-sub-mul-div• 3 years ago

Better to use recent events as an excuse to get off the site altogether.

It had been a crappy habit for a while, so I'm not going to go out of my way to get back into it after I was given the gift of disrupting it.

dakial1• 3 years ago

That has been my strategy as well.

Stephen304• 3 years ago

I have needed to resort to using reddit to sell some homelab stuff lately and I was pleased to find that the revanced manager patcher has adblock patches for the official reddit app (as well as twitter, which is nice for the occasional visit), not to mention patches for various 3rd party apps that allow you to substitute api keys

ChrisArchitect• 3 years ago

Teddit: alternative Reddit front-end site

darthrupert• 3 years ago

Would it make sense to scrape reddit (links, not comments) to a dedicated Lemmy service? As a nice transitory thing when enough people haven't yet moved?

slushh• 3 years ago

https://lemmit.online/

dpifke3• 3 years ago

My private instance still works great. It's pretty easy to run your own: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

My private Nitter instance is also working again after the latest set of changes: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

arcastroe2• 3 years ago

Is your private instance behind a login/VPN, or is it open to the public? If open, how long has it been running?

I'm considering running one "privately", but am worried about it being "discovered" and abused with unwanted traffic. And setting it behind a VPN seems like a hassle.

dpifke3• 3 years ago

It's behind my firewall/VPN (not publicly accessible).

The official instructions use nginx as a reverse proxy. If you don't want to set up something like Wireguard, you can use HTTP basic authentication[0] to make it inaccessible/invisible without a username/password. (You definitely want to also set up certbot[1] for SSL if you go this route.)

[0] https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/c...

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/LetsEncrypt

I_am_tiberius• 3 years ago

Get off reddit

appleflaxen• 3 years ago

Consider r/redditseppuku

qjx• 3 years ago

Noticed that too. Ever since i changed my bookmark to teddit, i'm getting the same error. noticed my time spent on reddit drastically decreased because i noticed everytime i get bored i'd go to the bookmark, but then i'd see the 429 error so i close the tab

Tell HN: Teddit has been de facto shut down

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