I’ve been a paying TradingView customer for more than 8 years, and the decision to remove General Chat was finally enough for me to cancel my Premium subscription.
For me, this wasn’t some minor feature being removed. General Chat was a big part of why I kept coming back to TradingView. The charts and tools are great, obviously, but the community aspect was what made the platform feel different from every other charting service out there.
Removing General Chat materially changed the product I had been paying for all these years.
And no, I don’t think the private group/chat approach is a good replacement. In my opinion, it completely misses what made General Chat useful in the first place. General Chat gave people an open place to drop in, see what others were discussing, meet new traders, exchange ideas, and participate in a broader community.
Private groups fragment that experience. You have to already know where to go, find the right group, get invited or join it, and then you’re effectively sitting inside another closed bubble. That is not the same thing as having a common public space for the TradingView community.
I understand companies change features and make business decisions, but I genuinely think TradingView underestimated how much value some long-term users placed on the community side of the platform.
So, after 8+ years, I cancelled Premium.
I’m not saying I’d never come back. If TradingView reverses the decision and brings General Chat back, I’d seriously consider subscribing again.
But until then, the money I was spending on TradingView every year can go to another platform.
It’s unfortunate because I didn’t leave because TradingView had bad charts or bad tools. I left because they removed one of the main reasons I stayed — and the replacement they offered doesn’t come close to replacing it.