@Freaky @neilhimself Well, to me (just reading this, not having the problem, never sold my soul to the birdsite) this sounds somewhat like people telling me years ago "using nerdy selfhosted opensource platforms is meh, we better use something readymade for free..." and now having to learn to write your own code urgently for the sole purpose to get a copy of the data which you handed over to that 'free' service, which hardly has employees left? Sorry... not sorry.