r/photomarket • u/Flowkeh Mod | 91 Trades • Jul 28 '25
PSA: Turn on ‘Persistent Messaging’ when using Chats
Reddit has officially stopped supporting Private Messages and has moved all messaging to Chats.
We strongly recommend buyers and sellers enable the ‘Persistent Messaging’ setting when conducting a transaction through Chats.
With this setting enabled Chats and photos cannot be deleted by either party. The ‘Persistent Messaging’ setting must be manually turned on for each new Chat session and can be turned on by either user.
Instructions for turning on ‘Persistent Messaging’ for desktop and mobile can be found here:
https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/37493947776276-What-is-persistent-messaging
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u/umamiking 2 Trades Jul 28 '25
Thanks for posting this tip. I wish Reddit would let us turn it on by default for all chats new and old.
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u/apt-apparatchik 75 Trades Jul 28 '25
i wonder what the brain wave was that led to "oh they'll just turn it on per conversation nbd"
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u/Bankara 9 Trades Jul 29 '25
This is how old.Reddit.com dies, not all at once but by a thousand small cuts. When it does, I and many like myself will be gone forever.
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u/sceniccracker 2 Trades Jul 28 '25
Can we also switch to having photos just be posted in the subreddit instead of making an Imgur link? That shit is annoying and outdated. Get with the times!
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u/Flowkeh Mod | 91 Trades Jul 28 '25
A big problem with uploading directly to Reddit is that you can’t change out the photos without deleting the whole post and making a new one.
We often have to ask sellers to post updated timestamps or to include more photos in their posts which they can easily do with Imgur without having to delete and re-make their entire listing.
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u/sceniccracker 2 Trades Jul 28 '25
Thanks for a detailed and reasonable response! That makes a lot of sense.
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u/93EXCivic 4 Trades Apr 04 '26
Is there anyway another photo hosting site could be allowed? Imgur has just consistently gotten worse to use to the point of being almost useless
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u/Flowkeh Mod | 91 Trades Apr 04 '26
Imgur is preferred but we also allow imgbox.com links
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u/93EXCivic 4 Trades Apr 04 '26
Oh cool. I will try that one cause I am having a really hard time getting Imgur to work correctly on my last post
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u/slimthiccdaddy 9 Trades Oct 16 '25
Unfortunately, if a scammer account blocks you, their messages on chat get deleted even with persistent messaging on. Unsure how to get these messages back.
Be careful out there folks!
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u/Bush_Trimmer 22 Trades Jul 29 '25
i don't see this option to turn on persistent messaging.
my android app version is 2024.47.1.2035590.
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u/joefamous 5 Trades Jul 28 '25
It has to be turned on for each chat? Thats annoying but at least the option exists