2y ago

Reddit is removing your chat history from before 2023

www.theverge.com Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023

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

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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2y ago

Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023

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

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2y ago

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Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023

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

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People used the chat feature?
- IIRC, the only chats I ever got were... like... bots for brands, or OF girls.
  
  And newbies who didn’t realize that chat was trash that didn’t work on 3rd party apps.
  
  The only time I ever chatted was with a guy who tried convincing me the Holocaust wasn't real
- 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.
- There was a chat feature?
  
  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.
  
  Yeah that's how I feel because I used uBlock to hide the icon
- 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.
  
  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.
- Porn subs used it a lot, beyond that I’m pretty sure it was mostly useless
- 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.
- Lol right? Who gives a shit

Nobody wanted chat on that site anyway. It was all catfish bots and cryptocurrency scams.
- And sometimes both at the same time.
- Gimmick to say the least... terrible in fact, there's too many platforms for chatting as it is -- where Discord shines in that regard

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

What's a 'reddit'?

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.
- I’ll try that out, thanks a lot!
- Only CHAT, not comments. Totally different. People used comments, only bots used the chat
  
  Shit, thanks!