TL;DR To make messaging on Reddit faster and more reliable, we’re replacing Private Messages (PMs) with Reddit Chat and inbox notifications. This transition is necessary to maintain and improve Reddit’s messaging infrastructure. We aim to make these changes with minimal disruption while improving the user experience.
Timeline: Starting at the end of March, we’ll roll out these changes in phases over the next three months to ensure everything goes smoothly
If you’re on old reddit you don’t even see notifications for chat
I used to. I turned it off. There’s an option somewhere to completely turn off Reddit chat.
im surprised they keep the legacy frontend around for this long. im sure its a matter of time before they kill it.
They are changing this as part of getting rid of PMs: