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.

  • @dingus
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    761 year ago

    People used the chat feature?

    • FuglyDuck
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      321 year ago

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

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            • @[email protected]
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              41 year 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.

      • Ghostalmedia
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        121 year ago

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

      • @MKBandit
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        41 year ago

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

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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      181 year 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.

    • @Dnn
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      131 year ago

      There was a chat feature?

      • Rentlar
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        31 year 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.

      • @WetBeardHairs
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        21 year ago

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

    • @Purplexingg
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      101 year 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.

      • @dingus
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        41 year 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
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          31 year 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.

    • @BURN
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      51 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year 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.

  • @fubo
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    251 year ago

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

    • @linearchaos
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      61 year ago

      And sometimes both at the same time.

    • @cable
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      31 year ago

      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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    151 year ago

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

  • @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.

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    • FiveMacs
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      51 year ago

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

  • @seeCseas
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    61 year ago

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

  • @Zstom6IP
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    11 year ago

    how do i request data for chats?

  • BombOmOm
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    -31 year ago

    That’s OK, I already deleted all my comments and left. Fuck 'em.