Comments: reply_delay field missing

[ianbstewart]

For comment searches, it looks like the reply_delay field and possibly other fields go missing sometime in 2018. Check the results from the following queries:

• Comments from "MockDeath" after 2018-01-01: https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/comment/?author=MockDeath&sort=asc&size=1&after=1514764800

• Output:

  author | "MockDeath"
  author_created_utc | 1217028326
  author_flair_css_class | null
  author_flair_text | null
  author_fullname | "t2_37csl"
  body | "But that doesn't mean refined sugar necessarily. Type 1 is completely independent of your sugar intake. Just because it is 'diabetes' doesn't mean it is created by refined sugar.. They still haven't even found a cause for type 1.\n\n-edit- However 90-95% of diabetics are type 2. So people tend to falsely attribute sugar consumption to all diabetes. But type 1 is completely different in the mechanism of how the issue is caused."
  can_gild | true
  controversiality | 0
  created_utc | 1514964638
  distinguished | null
  edited | 1514964848
  gilded | 0
  id | "ds4b9xz"
  is_submitter | false
  link_id | "t3_7nq63u"
  nest_level | 3
  parent_id | "t1_ds496ki"
  permalink | "/r/news/comments/7nq63u/scientists_find_alzheimers_treatment_while_trying/ds4b9xz/"
  reply_delay | 4148
  retrieved_on | 1517515846
  score | 10
  stickied | false
  subreddit | "news"
  subreddit_id | "t5_2qh3l"
  subreddit_type | "public"

• Comments from "MockDeath" after 2019-01-01: https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/comment/?author=MockDeath&sort=asc&size=1&after=1546300800

• Output

  author | "MockDeath"
  author_created_utc | 1217028326
  author_flair_background_color | null
  author_flair_css_class | null
  author_flair_richtext | []
  author_flair_template_id | null
  author_flair_text | null
  author_flair_text_color | null
  author_flair_type | "text"
  author_fullname | "t2_37csl"
  author_patreon_flair | false
  body | "Not from an OP."
  created_utc | 1546534170
  gildings |  
  gid_1 | 0
  gid_2 | 0
  gid_3 | 0
  id | "ed5r8rb"
  link_id | "t3_ac2tng"
  no_follow | true
  parent_id | "t1_ed5pobh"
  permalink | "/r/trebuchetmemes/comments/ac2tng/when_your_scrolling_through_rcatapult_memes/ed5r8rb/"
  retrieved_on | 1546534171
  score | 1
  send_replies | true
  stickied | false
  subreddit | "trebuchetmemes"
  subreddit_id | "t5_3b712"
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