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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo to c/technology

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Reddit recently removed years of chat and message archives from users' accounts without warning as part of an infrastructure upgrade. Many Redditors were upset to discover that their chat histories from before January 2023 were no longer accessible. Reddit claims they only migrated data from 2023 forward during the transition to the new chat infrastructure. Some users were able to retrieve some of their old messages by requesting their Reddit data, though others reported that not all messages were recovered. Along with this change, Reddit has recently made other unpopular decisions like ending Reddit Gold, showing a lack of communication and consideration for users' sentimental attachment to their online data.

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[–] mana@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This sounds like it would hurt Reddit more than the users since a lot of value was in being able to search archived solutions to obscure problems.

[–] jarfil 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If I understand correctly, this is only about private chats and private messages. Public comments you still have to blank/delete personally, and Reddit seems to be keeping restoring them.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm finding they are stealth restoring them. As in, I've deleted all my posts/comments, but every once and a while, I'm finding someone replying to a post I've most definitely deleted. And my profile shows no posts/comments associated with my account.

[–] elfpie 2 points 1 year ago

This might be relevant: https://tildes.net/~tech/16on/reddit_is_silently_restoring_deleted_edited_comments#comment-8o2b

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