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.

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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      181 year ago

      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.

      • Rentlar
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        31 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        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.

        • JokeDeity
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          31 year ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 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.