Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts

3 years ago by BrikoX to c/reddit

Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history.

NotSpez 29 points 3 years ago

Hmm. Almost like the company doesn’t genuinely care about the users.

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SmellyNinja 15 points 3 years ago

Surely that can’t be it.

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ModernRisk 21 points 3 years ago

It truly sucks but what did people expect? A polite message?

After how Reddit handled the API changes, the whole thing with Christian (Apollo developer), don’t expect anything politely, good or nice from Reddit CEO.

However, I’m curious as to why Reddit is doing this, though I know they were planning to change the chat system (something to do with ‘legacy chat’).

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Bozicus 4 points 3 years ago

I expect them to move chat functionality to the official app. Facebook made a similar move many years ago, and I think they did get increased access to users' phones that way. Reddit might find it a harder sell, given that they have a totally different role in people's lives, and (much as I hate to imply anything nice about Facebook), a much less usable app.

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TheRealBob 17 points 3 years ago

Joke’s on them, nobody ever talks to me.

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PolarFred 9 points 3 years ago

What's the point? Data is cheap to store, and I'd assume they could sell it if they wanted to

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Eezyville 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah I just learned that mine is lost too. Annoying...

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can 4 points 3 years ago

If you make a data request you may get it in a month

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fourmat 1 point 3 years ago

Mine took two weeks

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fitobugger2017 2 points 3 years ago

The jokes on them, I already deleted all my messages and comments before deleting my account.

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vamp07 2 points 3 years ago

Every day I use Reddit less and move more of this sort of interaction over here. To the extent that I can find communities for my interests, I’m consistently dropping the use of Reddit. It may take some time but I’m no longer a Reddit fan boy.

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empireOfLove 1 point 3 years ago

Oh noo they finally removed the hundreds of porn spam bot only fans link from my chat box that I never used.

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