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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts
- brucethemoose2 3y agoOf course. They can't be sold for datamining... Why would Reddit waste money keeping them?
- cyanydeez 3y agoThey're more likely burying the bodies. My bet is they just sold it for cash.
- bezier-curve 3y agoReddit continues to show how little they care. I hope they get the IPO over with relatively soon so we can watch it turn into Tumblr, and have an exodus of people move to a service that "remembers the human".
- 0xFFOOFF 3y ago[flagged]
- appleflaxen 3y agoConsider r/redditseppuku
- prirun 3y agoI doubt they've deleted it. They've just made it unavailable for scraping (not logged in), so anyone who wants older data for that purpose will have to pay for it. It seems this action would also have the undesirable side-effect of gradually removing older Reddit pages from search engines.
- accrual 3y agoThese are chats and messages though, they were never publicly scrapable to begin with.
- gymbeaux 3y agoThis fits perfectly with their new, greedy persona. Plus, data is cheap to store, especially if it’s already stored. It would cost them more to delete the data and repurpose the hard drives.
- Tempest1981 3y agoSo it was announced with 1 week notice? During summer, when people are on vacation?
- gymbeaux 3y agoAll my Reddit accounts are banned now, but back in the day I was contributing how-to posts and the like. I was a mod on a larger subreddit too. The bans were mostly “incorrect” and a result of automation e.g. “X people reported it so it must be against the Reddit rules because people only report things that are against the rules, right?” Anyway it’s become a cesspool and I’m glad it’s dying.