Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023
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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.

  • dingusEnglish
    771·
    2 years ago

    People used the chat feature?

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      32·
      2 years ago

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

            • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
              51·
              2 years ago

              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.

      • GhostalmediaEnglish
        131·
        2 years ago

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

      • MKBanditEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

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

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)English
      18·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • DnnEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      There was a chat feature?

      • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • WetBeardHairsEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

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

    • PurplexinggEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • dingusEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        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.eeEnglish
          41·
          2 years ago

          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.

    • BURNEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

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

    • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.