Reddit did inform users that they'd be deleting chats prior to 2023 on June 30, but buried the messaging at the bottom of a post on the platform's subreddit.
If you hopped on Reddit to scroll through your favorite forums this week, you may have encountered private or restricted messages. That's because thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site's data.