Reddit removes chats and message history from 2022 and prior

They have warned about this before, but it’s still pretty wild to think they’re now removing old DMs (and chats, but it’s not like anyone used those).

Interestingly you can still see them if you take out your data via a request, so they got them in the database still.

  • Chozo
    13•1 year ago

    All of that is true, but they also could’ve said “Hey, we’re deleting these messages in a week, back up anything important, sorry for the short notice” and that would have been A-OK. Some people lost some sentimental messages and weren’t prepared to back them up because there was zero warning that this was happening.

    • Rikudou_SageA
      2•1 year ago

      Someone said they’re still part of the GDPR export, you can try that. If it doesn’t work, use a VPN to connect from an EU country.

    • conciselyverbose
      1•1 year ago

      Are you sure they didn’t give warning? I completely stopped visiting the site when they announced they were taking my app away, but I could have sworn I’ve seen mentions that they were building new chat/messages and that old ones would be gone for a while now. Well before any of the current API stuff.