Comments coverage stops at 2021-04: any plan to resume?
Hi, and thank you for maintaining this dataset. The Parquet repackaging is extremely useful for research.
I noticed the comments coverage currently ends at 2021-04 (185 months), while submissions extends to 2026-02. From states.json it looks like the pipeline was mid-way through processing 2021-05 comments. Is there a plan to resume the comments ingestion toward more recent years?
For context, I'm working on an academic study of Reddit discourse over time, and having comments through ~2025 would make a big difference for our analysis. Completely understand if compute constraints are the bottleneck even a rough sense of whether/when comments might catch up would help us plan.
Thanks for your interest in the dataset. I only have a low-cost VPS, so processing is relatively slow. I recently restarted the data pipeline, and it has now reached July 2021. It will take a few days to finish processing the remaining data.
I also added support for processing data from May 2026 through June 2026, which was not included in the previous version of the code. It will take some time for the pipeline to catch up to those months.
In case you need the dataset sooner, the data pipeline used to produce these datasets is available here:
https://github.com/tamnd/arctic-cli
It is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, so please feel free to use it.
I am glad that these datasets are useful for your research.