If you have fond memories of chatting with Reddit friends, you might want to check your archives. Reddit has confirmed user reports that it’s removing all chats and messages from before 2023. As the social site explained in June, it’s moving to a new chat architecture and believes pulling older messages will enable a “smooth and quick transition” to the new architecture. The change took effect June 30th, but many users only noticed days later.
There may be a way to recover some of those messages, Mashable says. You can request account data from Reddit through an online form, and the archive might include conversations from before 2023. While it won’t be as easy to revisit a priceless chat, it won’t necessarily be gone forever.
Users still aren’t thrilled, however. While Reddit disclosed the cutoff in a changelog, it didn’t reddit.html” title=”Years of chats and messages are being removed by Reddit”>notify community members directly. That left some to discover the company’s plans only after their message logs disappeared, preventing them from backing up their…
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