[current user avatar in chat section] Image taken from Own username and avatar displayed when looking at other people’s Rewinds I noticed that the chat section in my rewind on Meta was no longer available after my last message in the lounge channel was older than three months and therefore delete…

[image] Moin: Or is the number not really about the past year but only based on the messages available? This [image] Moin: Shouldn’t the message inside the rewind explain that in this case? It’s a a for fun thing, it doesn’t really shot for academic accuracy.

I think the “for fun, not academic accuracy” framing downplays the issue a bit. This isn’t about small discrepancies - there’s a meaningful difference between “this is your chat activity over the last year” and “this is your chat activity over the last few weeks of retained data.” When “retention …

How does Discourse rewind count chat messages in the past year?

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j.jaffeux (Joffrey Jaffeux) February 4, 2026, 11:53am 4

Thanks, noted, but we have much bigger fish to fry. This will be WONTFIX for the foreseeable future.

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How does Discourse rewind count chat messages in the past year?

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