Reddit is removing the Direct Message feature, and all active conversations will be archived so you won’t be able to continue ongoing conversations. Reddit also deleted all bad reviews for their app awhile ago. Its rating went from 3.4 to 4.5 stars overnight.
Makes sense tbh, having two separate systems of private one-on-one communication wasn’t that logical.
im surprised they even kept it this long, considered even bots gave up on it.
“makes sense” would be removing the chat that never should have existed in the first place.
Yeah ok sure, but given that the chat existed this isn’t surprising. I’m not enamoured with Reddit’s choices (obviously, we’re on Lemmy), but the reaction here feels pretty dumb.
Huh? They added the chat in like 2017 as part of their push to enshitify the site and make it a social network lol. I thought it was stupid then, and I still don’t see why we need it. Reddit is (was) designed to be like a forum. You post, and you wait for an answer. It wasn’t meant for real-time conversation. I don’t even see how that fits into the site? The majority of chats I get are NSFW spam bots, and the rest are messages that I see months later because I have chat hidden and only see it on really rare occasions when I have to leave old.reddit a DM would have been answered much faster lol
It makes sense if you want to force users to use the app. It’s what put the nail in the coffin for facebook for me.
The patched 3rd party apps were the first that came to my mind… Gladly I barely use the DMs feature, even less the chat feature lol.
Delete your phone’s texting app.
What? You can just call them. Having two separate systems of private one-on-one communication isn’t that logical.