Reddit removed the old.reddit traffic page. This made a simple task take 90x the time?

Edit: The admins have now reverted the change. Both the old.reddit traffic page and the API access to it should work again


On r/formula1 we had been saving the daily pageview, unique and new member stats for 3.5 years now.

This used to be a simple task. Once every 30 days copy-pasting the data into a spreadsheet: pageviews, uniques and members all in the same copy-paste.

To do the same on the new Insights page, you need to hover over each bar on the chart, transcribe the number to the spreadsheet, repeat this for each day, so 30 times and 3 times for pageviews, uniques and members. At least 90x the work.

Why did we save the daily stats? Firstly it was a fun little side-project, it was interesting to compare which races generated the most activity, we could look back to see which races were the highlight of the season, as well as comparing the same races between seasons. We also used the data for external outreach as well as sharing it with the community on some occasions.

Am I missing something? Is there a way to easily save this traffic data? At the very least could there be a "download data" button to save the traffic insights as a .csv or .json?

In the scheme of moderation tools on Reddit, admittedly this is not a very important issue, just a nitpick. But it makes a somewhat useful simple side-project take 90x the effort, another change that continues to slowly suck out all the little joys from moderation