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.
So, DM and Reddit Chat is not same thing ?
chat is more public, and prone to spammers. PM/DM is a private message to someone that the public cant see.
No, I had my chat hidden because I primarily used old Reddit, and so I pretty much never looked a it. Made 0 sense to me. If somebody wanted something in private, they can send me a DM.
I didn’t even realize people used the chat on there. When it rolled out, it was almost exclusively bots lol
it was for bots, still but barely, i think they gave up on it.
No, they’re two different communication methods. To be fair, it does seem weird to continue maintaining two forms of DM, but also I liked the old school DM style vs the newer realtime message style, personally. I guess I like the distance from strangers.
Also DMs work on both new & old Reddit. Chat only works on new Reddit.
(Unless something has changed recently.)
That’s probably a feature. They don’t want old reddit to exist.
When new reddit came out they said new features would not be back ported. I saw that as a feature.
Oh, and some open source app you build by yourself and put your API key in only work with DM because those app is no longer maintained.
Speaking of API, I don’t think there’s one for the chat, so removing DMs will greatly reduce the capabilities of RemindMeBot etc.
Oh I get it now