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by tivert 1144 days ago
So does this mean no more looking at deleted comments?

It's been awhile since I used one, but there were a bunch of sites that would "undelete" reddit comments. Which is super helpful because redditors seem to have a habit of retroactively deleting everything they posted, and deleted comments sometimes answer some question you're trying to figure out (e.g. (someone asks my question) -> [deleted comment] -> thanks! that fixed it!).

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you can change a reddit URL to reveddit.com and it works pretty well (deleted comments are brown)

You can also search your own username and see what has been 'removed' by mods - much easier than signing out of your account and trying to find content that isn't there

reveddit is precisely an example of one of those sites which uses Pushshift to display removed content
I thought as much

Presumably this will also break Camas search

i presume yes for anything before the cutoff date