Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023
www.theverge.com
An admin told users Reddit is “making new chats better.”

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.

    • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      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.

          • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
            51·
            1 year ago

            Don’t forget that a person who contacts people in this way has to be weird just due to the way of how she found you. As sad as it is for her, there’s a reason why she’s lacking friends this hard.

    • MKBandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      The only time I ever chatted was with a guy who tried convincing me the Holocaust wasn’t real