TL;DR To make messaging on Reddit faster and more reliable, we’re replacing Private Messages (PMs) with Reddit Chat and inbox notifications. This transition is necessary to maintain and improve Reddit’s messaging infrastructure. We aim to make these changes with minimal disruption while improving the user experience.
Timeline: Starting at the end of March, we’ll roll out these changes in phases over the next three months to ensure everything goes smoothly
You guys are still logging into reddit?
Yes, to promote Lemmy
And you haven’t been banned yet?
No, you just need to choose where you talk about it
/r/RedditAlternatives is fine
hi its me a r/redditalternatives mod
Do you think you could maybe update the pinned table? It’s been there for a while
Probably not, but I’ll poke the head mods eventually about it
Fuuuuck chat. I hated it when they debuted it, I hate it now. Fortunately I don’t have to deal with that shit cause I’m over here now.
its because they cant datamine pm/dm, a chat is basically fair game to them.
That doesn’t make sense. They totally control the platform, they can (and surely do) datamine every ounce of it.
Genuinely can’t remember the last time Reddit had a good update.
If you’re on old reddit you don’t even see notifications for chat
im surprised they keep the legacy frontend around for this long. im sure its a matter of time before they kill it.
they probably know the legacy users/og users like us would bounce from reddit the moment they remove it? they havnt figure a way to introduce the shittier new UI in such a way that people will stay?
Oh yeah, chat is such a popular feature. I love how it is constantly full of spam and death threats. Lets elevate that great content to my lock screen.
Why & When Is This Happening?
To make Reddit faster, simpler, and easier to use, we needed to unify our messaging platforms. This consolidation helps us focus on improving one system instead of maintaining multiple. Plus, Reddit Chat’s infrastructure is built for the future, unlike the PM system which is about as old as Reddit itself.
We’re sharing this change early because we want your feedback! We’ve spent months talking to mods, developers, and users to ensure this migration works for everyone (shoutout to u/RemindMeBot fans). But there might be scenarios we’ve missed, and we need your input to address them. You can share feedback directly with the team working on this project in the comments below.
My sides went into orbit. They aren’t even trying to come up with believable lies any more, right?
- If the concern was to make Reddit “faster, simpler, and easier to use”, they’d ditch chat and keep DMs
- “muh futchure” fallacy (appeal to novelty)
- pretending that they want/care for user feedback
…I think that the reason is twofold: 1) it’s easier to plug advertisement into the new chat system, and 2) chat only works in new.reddit so they can use it as an excuse to deprecate yet another old.reddit system.
pratically what youtube did, got rid of thier DM/pm and forced everyone to comment on videos, so it can be astroturfed and artificially boosts engagement.
Yup, pretty much.
And, as usual, advertisers are to be blamed: they’re the ones interested on “engagement”, and indirectly siccing platforms to artificially inflate their engagement numbers.
fuck u/spez
Removed by mod
Maybe you keep getting permabanned because of your fixation with murder my guy. Your comment history is concerning
Never use chat. Anytime I get a chat message, it’s spam or somebody trying to scam me.
Private messages, by the way. Never had that issue.
i never get spam only people trying to suck my dick constantly
Sync for Reddit does not have a chat function, so I won’t be using DMs… Not that I even care for it, I guess my “chat request” feed will be bigger for the next time I check on the desktop website (with Ublock Origin ofc) 😅
It was always a mystery that they maintained two features with basically the same function in parallel for so long. Hopefully they made it better than the last time I gave it a try, because otherwise, oof.
when it was first introduced we were getting regular chat request, than it turn into spammers, and hten people stopped using it altogether.
That’s fucking weird
Just a heads up some programs like Redact (for deleting social media posts including Reddit) on iOS require a subscription if you want to delete chat history vs free for dm. I recommend using shreddit anyway, and I would seriously consider you do so asap.
Custom clients don’t have chat. Oh well. I basically never used DMs anyways so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Another set of features is being taken away. The dismantling of old reddit continues.
