People actually used the chat? I thought it was just spammers.
The chat system is there so nerds can hit up the hot chick who posted a painting in /r/pics asking for feet pics
Don’t forget the middle-aged men in r/teenagers LARPing as kids so they can creep on kids.
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.
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.
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.
I used it a couple of times to reach out when I felt like a more personal approach would be helpful.
Good. Get rid of everything Reddit. Do it. Go ahead and try to start over. Reddit won’t ever be the place it used to be, and its all Steves fault.
Calling it now, old.reddit.com will be dead by the end of the year.
I’ve had people working at Reddit tell me that old.reddit is so buried in there its removal would be hard. Which doesn’t change the fact that they would pull it out of necessary. I’m guessing they’ll find the routes for it and 301 anything to the new reddit. Easy enough change.
From the article: “ 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.”
If it took this long for people to notice, is it really worth their time to update the chat architecture?
To be fair, infinite storage timelines are sustainable for no service.
