Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts

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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts
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"Removes" or "hides them so that you think they're gone and won't try to delete them manually but they're still keeping them for nefarious reasons that mere mortals cannot fathom"?

Edit: I noticed by sheer coincidence that my reply to the next comment was removed. I SERIOUSLY do not know why. I'm very confused and if I did anything wrong, I'm unable to learn from this without being told what I did wrong.

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... well to be fair nobody should have used those as long term storage solutions. But they still could have been nicer and more clearly announce their intention so people who care would have gotton a chance to save their stuff. - Just posting it in some changelog doesn't sound very noticable.

This is Reddit we’re talking about they don’t do reasonable requests such as “advanced notice”

We're migrating legacy chat to another platform but only chats since the beginning of 2023 Who the fuck considers less than a years worth of chat legacy. Smh. It's sad to see reddit burn it's foundation to ashes. Lemmy here we come

Oh no all those chat requests from girls living just 3 miles from {location}!

Whatever. Anyone still there is getting what they deserve. You know what a garbage company they are, you have nobody but yourself to blame. Most messages I ever got on there were from accounts pushing OnlyFans accounts.