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#roaches_general-chat:reddit.com · channel c2_hqz

The chat channel attached to r/roaches ran for 608 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 404 messages from 32 people.

21 Mar 2024opened18 Nov 2025last message
608 days · 0.7 msg/day
404Messages
32People
46Images
21Reactions
19Replies
27Deleted

Every day the room was open

Activity in the final two weeks ran at 1% of the opening day.

Peak was 93 messages on 24 Oct 2024. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

21 Mar 202418 Nov 2025
busiest days middling quiet

What was actually being said

The room's own vocabulary

These are the words this channel used far more than the rest of the archive did — the in-jokes, names and shorthand that only make sense if you were in here. Median message length: 37 characters.

TermUses
roaches33
roach30
hissers12
species20
enclosure9
beetles8
mealworms5
cockroaches8
substrate5
babies11
i'm17
ct8
MeasureValue
Median message length37
90th percentile131
Total words1,924
Messages asking a question12.8%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 48 to 1 swing between busiest and quietest hour. This was a single-timezone room, awake 19:00–01:00 UTC.

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Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

Almost nobody walked out. They were removed.

Only 7 people ever chose to leave this channel. Another 236 were banned, peaking at 30 in September — a moderation purge, not an exodus. What actually declined was arrivals: 19 joined in the first month, 0 in the last.

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21 reactions

How the room responded

care
9
upvote
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joy
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facepalm
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scream
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Who was in here

32 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 102 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 10 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
ants853 mod10225.2%
[deleted]7919.6%
Inevitable_Lab_85746115.1%
Pungicity389.4%
[deleted]215.2%
crisp_autumn_breeze133.2%
Holy-Mettaton123.0%
pbizz92.2%
Skryuska92.2%
UraniumCopper71.7%
KornPuf71.7%
Minute-Pirate424671.7%

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18 Nov 2025 · the end of the log

The last thing anyone said here

No announcement, no goodbye. The archive simply stops. Nobody in this conversation knew it was the last one.

ants853Eucorydia pilosa adult female
ants853A beautiful species that I am hoping to breed this year and introduce to western world.
lue777Anyone here in az that has hissers
PungicityMy sister lives there she’s got two Cats they don’t hiss though
PungicityJokes aside look up a reptile show or expo they are fun and the tickets tend to be cheap. I bet they have inverts and bidders are pretty common
PungicityOne in every city
PungicityMy local one is once every two months
PungicityHere’s a fun tip. If you ever are in a situation you don’t want to be in. Carry around a roach in a film container or similar sized container. Put a hole. You can see where I’m going with this. Get cornered? Be nonchalant with that BBL pop it open. . Their putty in your hands lol 
lue777lol
redditWe’re making changes to Reddit Chat to simplify how people connect. As part of these efforts, public chat channels will sunset in mid-November across desktop, mobile web, and the Reddit apps. Learn more(https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15012434519316-What-are-chat-channels)
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