• can@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      They added real time chat a few years ago but never made it part of the api so it was only on new reddit and the official app. I only remember it exists when I’d be on my pc on reddit the odd time and see an additional notification.

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      I only noticed it on rare occasion when I used new.reddit.com. People used it! I had messages there everytime whereas I almost never got DMs to inbox. Occasionally if it wasn’t super old I would respond for a little while and they were always real humans.

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        1 year ago

        Never noticed it even on desktop with res installed. But by the same token it was really small subs I tended to make my presence known.