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by rfotino 3884 days ago
Very little information on the site -- how does this work? Presumably by storing the contents of every Reddit comment made since Decomment's creation and serving them up on demand? I imagine once you delete a comment on Reddit it's no longer available via the API or by scraping the site, but I was hoping something more interesting was going on than just storing comments in a separate database before they are deleted.
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That's exactly what goes on.
yes, exactly