Postmortem retrospective on 'redditp', the Reddit slideshow website ~15 minute read
Summary
The article recounts the long-running redditp project, a fullscreen slideshow viewer for Reddit, detailing its 14-year history, 374 commits, and hosting migrations from WebFaction to Netlify to Vercel and finally to a Hetzner VPS. It describes how DMCA takedowns and changing platform policies forced architectural changes, including a Chrome extension and an archival fallback when live access was blocked.