Not asking for any specific purpose, just that it'd suck if all that was lost because 
threw a tantrum.
If you're searching for something instead of browsing, https://ihsoyct.github.io/index.html is good
You can obtain an archive of /r/chapotraphouse here: https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/
Type in chapo, you'll find moretankiechapo there too. And countless others. The entirety of the top 20,000 subreddits was archived before they shut down the API and that API still allowed you to pull content from banned subs.
Posts and comments archive separately so you'll have to get them separately. There's probably some way to rebuild the entire thing using them as the basis of new databases but don't ask me how.
I wonder if y'all could upload the archive to Hexbear like we did with !genzhouarchive@lemmygrad.ml
r/ChapoTrapHouse Posts 177M .zst, Comments 845M .zst
that's pretty neat, I think someone could make an archive page/utility out of the subreddit based on that.
I guess there's no overlap between people who know what to do with a raw data dump (probably me?) and people who know what they want from it lol (not me lol), because this could have been done 4 years ago.
I have thought of fishing out some of the effortposts and comments. There are lots of gems in there. But yeah I'm not sure what to do with it.
probably, because social media companies almost never delete anything, but it'll never see the light of day again.
you could have used pushshift before the thing that happened a year ago to get the raw JSON (pretty much all the image URLs still work for banned subs AFAIK).
I don't know how easy it is to use pushshift for free after the event.
The sites that @Awoo@hexbear.net and I posted are both powered by pushift
pretty much all the image URLs still work for banned subs AFAIK
there is a caveat that galleries and videos might not work if a subreddit mod removed them, but I don't know if that applies to banned subreddits.
