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Reddit is removing your chat history from before 2023

Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023

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

An admin told users Reddit is “making new chats better.”

Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023

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.

32 comments

dingus

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People used the chat feature?

FuglyDuck

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

bob_wiley

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TheBenCommandments

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Damn is that a typical date for you bro??

bob_wiley

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anlumo

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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

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

MKBandit

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

ljdawson

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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

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There was a chat feature?

Rentlar

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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

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

Purplexingg

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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

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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

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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

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

Kiosade

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Lol right? Who gives a shit

anlumo

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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

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

linearchaos

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And sometimes both at the same time.

cable

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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

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

chemicalprophet

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What's a 'reddit'?

Smartboystupid

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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.