vogelke@alien.topBtoData Hoarder@selfhosted.forum•Best way to store Reddit posts before purging them?English
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1 year agoI’d save as HTML and then run something to convert it to markdown or some other type of plain text.
Why do you want to delete a post history?
First, have a look at these pages for some ideas:
https://github.com/driusan/PoormanIssueTracker
A simple format for using the file system as an issue tracker
https://github.com/driusan/bug
Distributed bug tracking with the filesystem and hg or git, written in Go
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/11/08/painless-bug-tracking/
Nice article by Joel Spolsky about setting up a small bug DB; might also be suitable for use with a spreadsheet
Have you ever used Midnight Commander or a filesystem browser? If you’re comfortable finding your way around a directory tree, here’s a quick and dirty example with your tickets under a folder called “issues”:
You don’t need a bunch of separate files; I like directories in case there are screenshots, email messages, etc. Something like this would also work using (say) dokuwiki.