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tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the messages thing was more a limitation of the old platform. I looked into it once to see if I could replicate Reddit chats outside of the app/website and it all went through a 3rd party who didn’t expose any api, had terrible latency and throughput issues and constantly broke.

The new system will be just as bad, just now Reddit will control it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is no set of raw data that cannot be laundered into a new system.

They removed the messages because they wanted to.