Question and answer platform Reddit quietly deletes chat data before 2023, causing outrage among users

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, July 17 (Xinhua)-- question-and-answer platform Reddit has previously been controversial over the pricing of API, and American netizens have complained about the "charging API". Now, Reddit has once again angered users by deleting all users' chat logs before 2023.

It is reported that the Reddit platform previously said that in order to achieve a "smooth and rapid transition", the platform migrated its chat infrastructure at the end of June 2023, and the migration has been completed, but the chat records of all users of the platform before January 1, 2023 cannot be viewed in the normal way.

In fact, Reddit issued an update announcement in June, which actually mentioned that Reddit "will delete chat logs," but it was not obvious that most users did not notice the notice, which eventually angered users who needed to access historical chat records.

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▲ image source RedditCTOnews.com found that there are two ways to get old chat records temporarily.

Use the old Reddit website: https://old.reddit.com/

Request Reddit to provide data export (which contains chat data). It may take 30 days for Reddit to respond):

Https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request