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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      1 year ago

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

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      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.

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    1 year ago

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

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

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

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    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.