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.

      • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        I had someone start a chat with me that I was sure was a scam, but I was bored so I kept talking. Turned out the girl lived about 20 minutes from me, which I was also skeptical about. She wanted to meet up and I decided to risk it (this was after a couple weeks and a lot of back and forth). We went to a park for a walk… turned out it was a real person, not a scam, and she was pretty normal. She then ghosted me. I get it, even after talking for an hour or so I still had my guard up and commented about being surprised no one broke into my car (I was kind of joking, but kind of not)… but still shitty considering she was talking about how she was looking for friends and I never indicated I was looking for anything more than that either.

        That being said, the chat feature was still stupid and nothing of value is being lost here. Other than that one time, it was all bots, OF girls, or crypto bros.

            • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
              51·
              1 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.

      • MKBandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

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

      • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 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.

    • Purplexingg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 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@lemm.eeEnglish
          41·
          1 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

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

    • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

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

  • amenotef@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

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

  • Smartboystupid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • seeCseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

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