Reddit is removing your chat history from before 2023

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/15/23795883/reddit-chat-history-removed-protest-blackout-new-architecture

Reddit is removing your chat history from before 2023::As part of a migration to a new architecture, Reddit chose not to migrate chat histories before 2023. Though it offers a way for users to request their old data, including chat histories, some users say they’re still missing messages.

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31 Comments

dingus@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 3y (17 replies)

People used the chat feature?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 3y (6 replies)

IIRC, the only chats I ever got were... like... bots for brands, or OF girls.

bob_wiley@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y (3 replies)

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TheBenCommandments@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Damn is that a typical date for you bro??

bob_wiley@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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anlumo@feddit.de · 4 pts · 3y

Don’t forget that a person who contacts people in this way has to be weird just due to the way of how she found you. As sad as it is for her, there’s a reason why she’s lacking friends this hard.

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y

And newbies who didn’t realize that chat was trash that didn’t work on 3rd party apps.

MKBandit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

The only time I ever chatted was with a guy who tried convincing me the Holocaust wasn't real

ljdawson@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 3y

They never made it available to 3P apps. I always figured they bought a chat system off the shelf just to say they had it.

Dnn@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (2 replies)

There was a chat feature?

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y

There was. I turned it off in 2019 because I was using a 3rd party Reddit app and didn't realize 5 people tried to message me through the chat feature.

WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Yeah that's how I feel because I used uBlock to hide the icon

Purplexingg@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Towards the end there anytime someone would pm me about something like 80% of the time it'd be a chat. I exclusively browsed on Reddit sync so when I randomly got on reddit desktop and saw I had like 10 chats from months ago it surprised me. Just goes to show how the community has shifted from when I first started 13 years ago and now imo.

dingus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yeah I used RIF for 99% of my Reddit browsing. Once I logged onto Reddit on my PC and found some months old chat comment for someone that was requesting help with an experience I had. I felt bad about not seeing it because I genuinely would have given them a comment on it sooner if they would have just PMed me.

JokeDeity@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y

You perfectly illustrated how pointless the chat system is. PM was and is a perfectly viable way to contact people, no need for a jank messenger knock off.

BURN@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Porn subs used it a lot, beyond that I’m pretty sure it was mostly useless

Kiosade@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y

Lol right? Who gives a shit

anlumo@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y

I had a few people contact me for technical clarification on comments I made. Somebody also briefly used me as a support hotline for technical problems.

fubo@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Nobody wanted chat on that site anyway. It was all catfish bots and cryptocurrency scams.

linearchaos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

And sometimes both at the same time.

cable@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Gimmick to say the least... terrible in fact, there's too many platforms for chatting as it is -- where Discord shines in that regard

amenotef@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y

Great. So now I only have the 2023 chats which are 95% of them initiated by bots unlike previous years.

chemicalprophet@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y

What's a 'reddit'?

Smartboystupid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I was perma banned on reddit which made it impossible to nuke(edit to gibberish & remove comments) my reddit. Hope this is an actual cleanup and my old comments get perma deleted as well.

bob_wiley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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Smartboystupid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I’ll try that out, thanks a lot!

Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Only CHAT, not comments. Totally different. People used comments, only bots used the chat

Smartboystupid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Shit, thanks!

seeCseas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

The only thing I did was use adblock to disable the red speech symbol for chat lol. Never even used it!

Im28xwa@lemdro.id · 4 pts · 3y

Jokes on them I already deleted mine