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

  • BURN@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • kep@lemmy.world
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      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.