I used the chat feature semi-regularly to chat with people about more private stuff. It was mostly about exchanging in creative endeavours, sharing what we had before posting it to Reddit.

So I am a bit moved now that they want to delete it.

But I also hated Reddit’s implementation of it. Under certain circumstances it wouldn’t load older messages and worst of all it was only available on the official app, not even their mobile web app. So continuing my chats forced me to use my desktop, or to try out the app which was horrible.

At this point, let Reddit burn in their mistakes and hopefully the others will make it better.

It’s funny, all they had to do was make better mod tools then stay the course and Reddit would have been the biggest social media company.

All of this change for the worse will end up killing them in the long run

To be fair, infinite storage timelines are sustainable for no service.

So I’m the only one who semi-regularly got people sending them messages in chat? I hated it, but I responded unless it was someone being a prick.

I don’t personally care that Reddit is removing these logs, but it just seems like they’re doing anything they can to piss people off.

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?