Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts
Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts
Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history.
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There's no technical reason they couldn't migrate this data into a new system or otherwise store it for legacy users. This was a direct buisness decision from leadership plain and simple. Hard to watch as people lose such a big part of their lives. Really highlight a greater need for more open forms of social media that can't be destroyed in a whim
There are 3 reasons I can see.
1:
It's a huge change, and they did a dual-implementation however long ago - where they store it in the active legacy system, and also store it in the new inactive system ready for when the switch is flipped.
Do a year of this, changeover flawlessly, and suck up the outrage over lost data.2:
It's a maybe not such a large change, but the data processing for it is expensive. So, however long is an acceptable cost, and its balanced against user outrage3:
There was a TOS change. So data before that date can't be sold/monetised, whereas after that date has value.
So, drop the data that costs money, keep the data that can be monetised.Whatever, it's bullshit.
Glad I left. And glad Lemmy is cool