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Is there a way to browse one's own history of participation in chatrooms?

Specifically, I'd like a way to see all of my conversations that were started from a "Let us continue this discussion in chat" comment invitation.

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Look through appropriately named chat rooms (i.e. with your username), including frozen and deleted rooms

Your best bet is going to be going through the rooms which were created for your conversations. Conversations such as you're asking about where the room is semi-auto-created for a discussion between two specific users from a post have room titles in the format "Discussion between username1 and username2". The list of rooms in chat can be searched by just entering something into the "filter rooms" field. So, entering your username "John Gordon" into that field and selecting to also see frozen and deleted rooms results in this list of rooms.

Your non-deleted chat messages are shown in your recent messages pages (your chat profile's "recent" tab)

A significant stumbling block for finding what you're interested in is that most of the chat rooms are deleted, which means the chat messages are deleted and won't be displayed anywhere within the chat system other than when looking at one of the deleted rooms or its transcript.

For your non-deleted chat messages, your "recent" message pages are paginated, so you can go back as far as you want, but for you there's only 2 pages of non-deleted messages (page 2).

A user's recent messages page is paginated: You can add &page=N to the URL (you can also add &pagesize=100) to see whatever page you desire. Userscripts which add pagination buttons: Stack Exchange Chat History Pagination and Chat Pagination, which is also in Sam's Chat Improvements.

Given that it's possible to increase the page size of the user's recent pages to 100 and you have < 100 non-deleted chat messages, you can see all of your non-deleted chat messages on this page.

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  • How did you get a link to that "recent messages pages"? I'm unable to find mine, I was only able to get to it by modifying the link you produced for John Gordon.
    – Mark Ransom
    Commented Apr 30 at 14:55
  • @MarkRansom It's the "recent" tab within your chat profile pages.
    – Makyen Mod
    Commented Apr 30 at 15:05
  • That was my question, how do I find the chat profile pages? I can't locate it in my profile anywhere.
    – Mark Ransom
    Commented Apr 30 at 15:08
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    @MarkRansom Unfortunately, chat is not that well integrated into the main/meta sites. You have to go to the chat server, then click on your username or avatar, which can be found in any of: the topbar, to the left of the input box at the bottom of the page, or in the list of users in a room in the right sidebar. For the later two locations, clicking opens a popup, which has a link to your profile. There are three chat servers: chat.SO, chat.SE, and chat.MSE.
    – Makyen Mod
    Commented Apr 30 at 15:19
  • Personally, I user a userscript to add links to the user's chat profiles to each user's main and meta profile pages. That userscript is a modified version of "Add link to network and chat profiles".
    – Makyen Mod
    Commented Apr 30 at 15:20
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    To be honest, it's kind of hard to find links to the chat servers as well. It's almost like a secret feature.
    – Mark Ransom
    Commented Apr 30 at 15:26
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    @MarkRansom We have a place for undiscoverable features like the logout button. A link to Chat can be found there as well.
    – rene
    Commented Apr 30 at 16:15

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