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.
People used the chat feature?
There was a chat feature?
Yeah that’s how I feel because I used uBlock to hide the icon
Porn subs used it a lot, beyond that I’m pretty sure it was mostly useless
They never made it available to 3P apps. I always figured they bought a chat system off the shelf just to say they had it.
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.
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.
IIRC, the only chats I ever got were… like… bots for brands, or OF girls.
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.
And newbies who didn’t realize that chat was trash that didn’t work on 3rd party apps.
The only time I ever chatted was with a guy who tried convincing me the Holocaust wasn’t real
Great. So now I only have the 2023 chats which are 95% of them initiated by bots unlike previous years.
Nobody wanted chat on that site anyway. It was all catfish bots and cryptocurrency scams.
Gimmick to say the least… terrible in fact, there’s too many platforms for chatting as it is – where Discord shines in that regard
And sometimes both at the same time.
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.
I was banned as well, but was still able to cleanup my stuff. I wrote a Python script using the API (when it was still free). That still seemed to work fine.
I’ll try that out, thanks a lot!
how do i request data for chats?
The only thing I did was use adblock to disable the red speech symbol for chat lol. Never even used it!
That’s OK, I already deleted all my comments and left. Fuck 'em.
FUCK
