10 points effectkai | 1 comments | 13 Dec 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source

It seems Meta recently migrated all Messenger chats to e2ee. But if you had created a secret conversation (e2ee) in the past then instead of migrating the existing chat Meta decided to archive and switch to the secret chat.

Since I only experimented with/created secret chats in the past with close friends and family, all my old conversations with years of history were archived with no path to restore.

This is a horrible UX experience and absolutely ridiculous that this design passed in Meta.

1. k310 ◴[13 Dec 25 16:21 UTC] No.46255673[source]▶

>>46255514 (OP) #

"Social" media have gone from being abusive to actively user-hostile.

They have none of the benefits of ancient, dinosaur email.

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Meta "deletes" years of conversations with friends/family