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It picks all the important stuff and presents it sans the fluff. Where do I subscribe? Really, where's the rss feed for new AMAs? Also, links to questions in their…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"4148667","achompas","Surprisingly compelling. The IAmA's are some of Reddit's best content, and this is so much easier to scan than a real IAmA thread. Thanks!",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"4149085","Jun8","Super, thanks! Saw a lot of stuff that I missed, e.g. the physicist who can calculate anything: * If I gain a kilo of weight here on earth, how much more will my wife be…",{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"Readers of Reddit IAmA threads","inferred",[69,70],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"4149195","unwiredben","Really enjoyed this... so much easier than navigating through hundreds of comments on Reddit's main interface",{"value":75,"source":76,"evidence":77},"Maker wanted a more readable format for IAmAs; planned a Chrome extension port.","maker",[78],{"id":79,"by":11,"text":80},"4148426","I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site. So consider this a…",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":85,"objections":103,"requests":145,"questions":192,"alternatives":212},[86,95],{"value":87,"source":51,"evidence":88},"Much easier to scan than Reddit's IAmA view",[89,90,91],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"4148784","ebun","This is MUCH better than the reddit version. If they're okay with you doing this, I whole-heartedly support your efforts here and wish you the best of luck with this endeavor",{"value":96,"source":51,"evidence":97},"Filters out fluff and keeps the best Q&A",[98,99],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"4149007","steve8918","Very very awesome! I love IAmA's, but the signal to noise ratio is relatively low, so that I can only bear it for about 1 page. This does a fantastic job in separating out the…",[104,119,134],{"value":105,"source":51,"evidence":106},"Font size and typography hard to read",[107,111,115],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"4148555","citricsquid","I've wanted to build something like this for a long time, the problem I encountered (which I couldn't solve) is how to effectively and automatically find not just the questions…",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"4148540","redslazer","The concept is good and its easier to scan than IAMA but the design\u002Ftypography just hurts to read. I would probably fix that asap. Make it bigger, easier to read and change the…",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"4149459","lukevdp","Yes I much prefer this format, great job. The only thing thing that I don't like is that the questions are hard to read for me. Maybe because they're large blocks of text in bold.",{"value":120,"source":51,"evidence":121},"Missing nested comments and original context",[122,126,130],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"4149302","sandollars","It looks like you grabbed every comment by the OP along with the comment it was a response too. In at least one instance, I see a situation where someone asked a question, I (not…",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"4149031","pygorex","Very cool. Reading the Nate Phelps AMA: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FIAmA\u002Fcomments\u002Fv99eg\u002Fiaman_exmember_of_the_westboro_baptist_church\u002F Right now the top-rated comment by Nate Phelps…",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"4149750","Alex3917","I like this, although I do think it would be better if each comment had a permalink back to the original so that we could see all the responses, not just the one by the person…",{"value":135,"source":51,"evidence":136},"Legality of republishing Reddit content",[137,138,142],{"id":79,"by":11,"text":80},{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"4148663","jawns","Scraping itself isn't always illegal. But scraping a site and then republishing the content elsewhere often is, unless you have permission.",{"id":143,"by":11,"text":144},"4148674","I figured displaying their content in full is illegal.",[146,158,170,181],{"value":147,"source":51,"evidence":148},"RSS feed for new IAmAs",[149,150,154],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"4150338","joshschreuder","This is great! I second the request for an RSS feed for the new IAMAs. Thanks for the site!",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"4148764","samspot","RSS Please!",{"value":159,"source":51,"evidence":160},"Permalinks to original Reddit threads",[161,162,166],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"4148816","waxjar","This is awesome, so much cleaner and easier to read. I hope it stays online. I'd make questions link to the original comment threads on Reddit, though. 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Their robots.txt and an admin writeup from…",{"value":182,"source":51,"evidence":183},"Chrome extension version",[184,188],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"4150017","jonmarkgo","This is great, would love to see it as a chrome extension!",{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"4151926","saurik","Why not build this as a browser extension or Greasemonkey script?",[193,201],{"value":194,"source":51,"evidence":195},"Is it legal to scrape and republish Reddit content?",[196,200],{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"4148600","twistedanimator","Why would scraping their site be illegal?",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},{"value":202,"source":51,"evidence":203},"Why not use Reddit's API instead of scraping?",[204,208],{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"4148828","bostonvaulter2","Why not just use their API instead of scraping? https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Freddit\u002Freddit\u002Fwiki\u002FAPI",{"id":209,"by":210,"text":211},"4148799","pavel_lishin","Why were you scraping? They offer a pretty good API.",[213,224],{"value":214,"source":51,"evidence":215},"reddit.com\u002Fr\u002Ftabled",[216,220],{"id":217,"by":218,"text":219},"4149152","kmfrk","An alternative that we know is legal, you can use http:\u002F\u002Freddit.com\u002Fr\u002Ftabled. To expand on that, you could create a stylesheet or such that modified the look of it. Something…",{"id":221,"by":222,"text":223},"4150134","intended","There used to be a comment bot\u002Fperson who put all the reddit AMA questions into a tabular format - I recently discovered it has a pretty useful subreddit:…",{"value":225,"source":51,"evidence":226},"Greasemonkey script or browser extension",[227],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},{"comments":229,"answered":40,"key":230},8,[231,232,235],{"id":79,"text":80},{"id":233,"text":234},"4148732","The problem of dealing with nested comments is very tricky as you mentioned. I did my best to grab the \"best\" comments, but I know that it does miss some in a deep thread. 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