Reddit nukes everyone’s pre-2023 chats and messages

> In our continued pursuit of empowering communities, we are transitioning to a new chat infrastructure

Okay what does that have to do with anything...

> In an effort to have a smooth and quick transition to this new infrastructure, we will migrate chat messages sent from January 1, 2023, onward

Oh so some tech lead wants to get promoted based on "made the chat system 500% faster" and they're going to do it by deleting 99% of chat messages. Bogus.

Glad to see Reddit following in Twitter's footsteps. Hopefully Instagram will be next. When social media's dead, the world will be a better place.

they will just replace existing ones with worse ones. that's how it's always been

They’ve really lost the thread over there. Very happy with my move to Lemmy.

Consider r/redditseppuku