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by Figs 2950 days ago
Trying to get your entire reddit history, for example, is an obnoxiously difficult thing to do. It's impossible to get more than 1000 comments with the officially supported mechanism, leading people to do all kinds of strange workarounds to try to find older comments.

As a 10 year redditor, that really frustrates me, since I can't go back and see my early posts any more.

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Curious if Reddit will have to provide an easy mechanism to retrieve all of your comments now as part of GDPR.
Check the announcement post. In a comment one of the admins said they will eventually but for now it's email only for residents of the EU.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/8m2yr4/were_...

If everyone in the EU could email them to speed this up that would be great.
> As a 10 year redditor, that really frustrates me, since I can't go back and see my early posts any more.

I'd much rather they let you get your own history out and then make it impossible to get said history for anyone else (unless that person chooses to allow it).