RedMemo — a self-hosted Reddit front-end (Redlib’s UI, Go back end) that archives what it serves, so it keeps working when Reddit doesn’t.
Repo (Go + Postgres, AGPL-3.0): https://github.com/Meeks233/Redmemo
Live demo (/settings is TOTP-gated, treat as read-only): https://redmemo.meekslab.cc/
Reddit`s funking constraints. Reddit caps each OAuth identity at ~100 API requests per 10 minutes, and IP-bans addresses that push too hard. The one mercy: media (images/video) is served from a CDN and doesn’t count against that quota — only the JSON posts/listing/comment calls do.
Why Redlib runs out. Stateless and unauthenticated — every page view is a fresh upstream hit with nothing kept. Each request pulls only a handful of posts, so the 100-call budget drains in minutes, and there’s no outbound rate limiting to pace it. Worse, it still ships a 2023-era official-app fingerprint; against an unchanged, years-old fingerprint, who else would Reddit block first?
Why RedMemo lasts. I supercharged everything.
- HR outbound rate-limit — Main gate for your poor API credits, sync with the dynamic ring at the topbar, which could help you easily estimate remaing credits.
- Control — 100 users rush to your instance, eveyone just clicks one link and your instance is completely disabled for 10mins…? Why couldn`t I just lockdown my instance and leave room for NP ? You can disable upstream service completely at env/settings. (env will persist)
- 5-layer NP (Natural Prefetch) — L1: main cycle (Pull 100 posts at once) , L2: media, L3: comments, L4 sub icon, L5 audio remux(under construction). I try my best to mimic real human behaviour and disperse those requests, so Redmemo just looks like a real user to Reddit.
- Archive — Reddit cant hack your homelab or vps to erase your records at Postgresql. What NP gets will come here and ready to serve.
- Scored cache — You could define cache size (like 1G at env), large and small media are run through a scoring function (LRU+Size) ; eviction is an incremental, low-IO sweep that drops the lowest-value items.
- Fresh fingerprint — Use the TLS fingerprint from reverse-engineering the official client and auto-derive the User-Agent from Reddit’s official-app release cadence, so it never goes stale. (However Android version is now pinned to 15)
It’s a derivative of Redlib/Libreddit, AGPL-3.0, not affiliated with Reddit.
To be honset, I used a lot of AI — Claude Code (4.6 through 4.8). But core codes were reviewed. The designs (NP, HR, the scored cache) are mine. If you could write better code, we will be very glad to see a new project inheriting from Redlib. Our beloved Redlib just lacks maintenance for almost 3 years, I just try to prolong its life. Anyway I`m just a college student using as much spare time as possible in the last 2 months just try to do something for community…😥
Just so you know in the future it’d probably be better to write your post in chinese and then use deepl to translate it if you can’t write a good text in english. Might end up a tad stilted but people here would like it a lot more, since the text AI generates in english is both artificial (nobody talks like that) and annoying to read.
Honest question: What would be the difference? DeepL uses AI language models and machine learning models for translation. I guess there would be a lack of em dashes so the text doesn’t offend delicate sensibilities.
Hell, I’d love to see them try their hand at an explanation before the AI text vomit. As long as it’s mostly readable, I’d rather it be a bit stilted but honest rather than this crap.