Reddit is removing years of chats and messages

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I wrote a comment outlining my very specific and somewhat surprising immigration situation, and someone asked me if I would mind answering some questions because they were by chance writing an article about people who fit my exact situation.

I gladly would have answered whatever questions they had, but they asked me via that dumb fucking chat function, so I only saw a year after they sent me the message.

I'm guessing they never opened up the API for chats. 3rd party app users never saw chats

I almost could have sworn that boost had it... I remember being frustrated that I couldn't get the chat pop up to go away.

I could easily be misremembering too, though.

No I'm pretty sure that was one of the things the Apollo dev was looking forward to with paid API.

I hated the chat function. DMs make sense, that stupid chat never did. And as I didn't really browse Reddit from my desktop (it was always a mobile app for me) and I used Boost, I never consistently checked my chats.

Might have been good if they had improved the API to include chats at least. But no.

Yeah I really disliked it, bots were always trying to chat with me (also follow). I finally had to disable it. Direct messages are fine, but if they ever add following or chat here, the first thing I'll do is disable it. I mean if I want to chat (which is rare), I'll just head over to Discord.