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.

      • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        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.

    • Nuuskis9@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      I had to turn the chat off because I was actively helping Linux noobs and then they sent too many private messages to me.

    • digdilem@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    All worthwhile content from reddit needs to be gathered and archived somewhere outside their reach or it will be lost.