Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts
Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts
Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history.
Reddit recently removed years of chat and message archives from users' accounts without warning as part of an infrastructure upgrade. Many Redditors were upset to discover that their chat histories from before January 2023 were no longer accessible. Reddit claims they only migrated data from 2023 forward during the transition to the new chat infrastructure. Some users were able to retrieve some of their old messages by requesting their Reddit data, though others reported that not all messages were recovered. Along with this change, Reddit has recently made other unpopular decisions like ending Reddit Gold, showing a lack of communication and consideration for users' sentimental attachment to their online data.
People used reddit chat?
I always assumed that trolls used it for brigading since people on 3rd party apps couldn't see it.
Yeah, I got into a disagreement with someone in a thread once and for a year or two, they'd just message me at random times to yell at me and accuse me of making them suicidal. I eventually blocked them and should have done it sooner. Aside from that, most other messages were just people sharing in game names for multiplayer stuff and Animal Crossing dodo codes.
I had to turn the chat off because I was actively helping Linux noobs and then they sent too many private messages to me.
I did. I was contacted several times by people who read my post about central serous chorioretinopaty, an eye pathology I have. People asked me for advice, we exchanged our experiences, they asked me how I was faring. I wrote that post in 2014. Last contact was some month ago.
you'd be surprised, I've heard from other reddit users that entire discord servers, wikis, & other communities would first start from reddit group chats so apparently there were a lot super involved in it. one of the big community partnered discord servers I was in told me the only reason they were on discord at first was because reddit chat made it hard to search old messages
All I ever got was spam.
They just keep fucking it up there.
Don't you see a pattern? Every Blackrock/Vanguard owned businesses are driving themselves down on purpose.
To my knowledge, Reddit is owned by private companies and investors. Blackrock and Vanguard have no ownership stake, or a very small and very indirect ownership stake.
For what it’s worth, a significant percentage of every (reasonably liquid) public company on Earth is owned by Vanguard and Blackrock, because those companies manage trillions of dollars in assets (many of which are middle-class people’s retirement investments). They aren’t a conspiracy. They’re asset managers, and mostly passive managers at that.
@Nuuskis9 @thatonedude1210 all wall street businesses do pump-n-dump cycles. Lol. Take the tinfoil hat off.
Deletion of personal data without consent or lawful base is also a violation of the GDPR.
They probably still have it. I did a gdpr request then overwrote and deleted all my posts. Then deleted my 11 year account. A couple of weeks later I got the request contents, which contained every post, every comment and every DM I ever made. Reddit does not delete when it's supposed to.
Do you have a citation for this? It conflicts with what I know about GDPR.
Mostly GDPR encourages companies to delete personal data they were holding once they no longer have a legitimate use for it. There is a rule where you can demand your data be frozen if so that misuse cam be investigated and in that case you'd be right. But in general companies can and should delete personal data.
That is true, in the GDPR, processing is defined as follows(Art 4): "‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;" And a data beach is defined as follows: "‘personal data breach’ means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;" And article 5 says: "processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality’)."
There is still legitimate use, as you still have the account and an accidental or unlawful deletion is a data breach.
I am no longer apathetic but livid
Fuck u/spez.
"First they came for the API..."
"First they came for the API..."
This sounds like it would hurt Reddit more than the users since a lot of value was in being able to search archived solutions to obscure problems.
It's just the chat though, not posts comments. I've probably used chat 3 times since it exists, I couldn't care less about the history. I'm sure most don't mind. Still, Reddit sucks.
If I understand correctly, this is only about private chats and private messages. Public comments you still have to blank/delete personally, and Reddit seems to be keeping restoring them.
Permanently Deleted
Permanently Deleted
If I still had my Reddit accounts I’d be P I S S E D
They still have it. I did a gdpr request then overwrote and deleted all my posts. Then deletedy 11 year account. A couple of weeks later I got the request contents, which contained every post, every comment and every DM. Reddit dies not delete when it's supposed to.
I don’t know if that’s across the board. I overwrote and deleted my accounts after Apollo shut down. Waited a week, checking in periodically, to see if any of my content made it back into my accounts. After a week of nothing resurfacing I felt safe deleting my accounts.
I don’t know if that’s across the board. I overwrote and deleted my accounts after Apollo shut down. Waited a week, checking in periodically, to see if any of my content made it back into my accounts. After a week of nothing resurfacing I felt safe deleting my accounts.
All worthwhile content from reddit needs to be gathered and archived somewhere outside their reach or it will be lost.
the archiveteam reddit project is doing just that
man, what a shitty move. i had some chats that i wanted to keep in case i needed them in the future but forgot to back up :(
It seems there's a form you can submit asking Reddit to retrieve them, if you wish to explore that option.
thanks for letting me know!
The are apparently still available through old.reddit as well
Reddit is really going downhill. Yay Lemme