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.
People used reddit chat?
I always assumed that trolls used it for brigading since people on 3rd party apps couldn’t see it.
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.
you’d be surprised, I’ve heard from other reddit users that entire discord servers, wikis, & other communities would first start from reddit group chats so apparently there were a lot super involved in it. one of the big community partnered discord servers I was in told me the only reason they were on discord at first was because reddit chat made it hard to search old messages
They just keep fucking it up there.
I am no longer apathetic but livid
Fuck u/spez.
“First they came for the API…”
“First they came for the API…”
Deletion of personal data without consent or lawful base is also a violation of the GDPR.
man, what a shitty move. i had some chats that i wanted to keep in case i needed them in the future but forgot to back up :(
The are apparently still available through old.reddit as well
It seems there’s a form you can submit asking Reddit to retrieve them, if you wish to explore that option.
thanks for letting me know!
If I still had my Reddit accounts I’d be P I S S E D
