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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re implementing new chat infrastructure and only replicated 2023/01/01 forward. It’s in the article.

[–] towerful 29 points 1 year ago

Oh man.
To be able to have a long running project and decide to truncate years worth of data...
Just, drop it like you never need it again.

Apart from working at Reddit, sounds like a dream