diff --git a/test/api/v3/integration/user/DELETE-user_messages.test.js b/test/api/v3/integration/user/DELETE-user_messages.test.js
index 3b5686c03b..079550b136 100644
--- a/test/api/v3/integration/user/DELETE-user_messages.test.js
+++ b/test/api/v3/integration/user/DELETE-user_messages.test.js
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ describe('DELETE user message', () => {
 
     messagesId = Object.keys(userRes.inbox.messages);
     expect(messagesId.length).to.eql(2);
-    expect(userRes.inbox.messages[messagesId[0]].text).to.eql('first');
-    expect(userRes.inbox.messages[messagesId[1]].text).to.eql('second');
+    expect(userRes.inbox.messages[messagesId[0]].text).to.eql('second');
+    expect(userRes.inbox.messages[messagesId[1]].text).to.eql('first');
   });
 
   it('one message', async () => {
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ describe('DELETE user message', () => {
 
     let userRes = await user.get('/user');
     expect(Object.keys(userRes.inbox.messages).length).to.eql(1);
-    expect(userRes.inbox.messages[messagesId[0]].text).to.eql('second');
+    expect(userRes.inbox.messages[messagesId[0]].text).to.eql('first');
   });
 
   it('clear all', async () => {
diff --git a/test/api/v4/user/GET-user.test.js b/test/api/v4/user/GET-user.test.js
index bf6cd2bb50..4b1bad4054 100644
--- a/test/api/v4/user/GET-user.test.js
+++ b/test/api/v4/user/GET-user.test.js
@@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ describe('GET /user', () => {
     let returnedUser = await user.get('/user');
 
     expect(returnedUser._id).to.equal(user._id);
-    expect(returnedUser.inbox.messages).to.be.empty;
+    expect(returnedUser.inbox.messages).to.be.undefined;
   });
 });
diff --git a/website/server/libs/inbox/index.js b/website/server/libs/inbox/index.js
index 5f5fd76658..cbdda9d8e2 100644
--- a/website/server/libs/inbox/index.js
+++ b/website/server/libs/inbox/index.js
@@ -1,18 +1,15 @@
 import { inboxModel as Inbox } from '../../models/message';
-import { toArray, orderBy } from 'lodash';
 
 export async function getUserInbox (user, asArray = true) {
   const messages = (await Inbox
     .find({ownerId: user._id})
+    .sort({timestamp: -1})
     .exec()).map(msg => msg.toJSON());
 
-  const messagesObj = Object.assign({}, user.inbox.messages); // copy, shallow clone
-
   if (asArray) {
-    messages.push(...toArray(messagesObj));
-
-    return orderBy(messages, ['timestamp'], ['desc']);
+    return messages;
   } else {
+    const messagesObj = {};
     messages.forEach(msg => messagesObj[msg._id] = msg);
 
     return messagesObj;
@@ -20,15 +17,9 @@ export async function getUserInbox (user, asArray = true) {
 }
 
 export async function deleteMessage (user, messageId) {
-  if (user.inbox.messages[messageId]) { // compatibility
-    delete user.inbox.messages[messageId];
-    user.markModified(`inbox.messages.${messageId}`);
-    await user.save();
-  } else {
-    const message = await Inbox.findOne({_id: messageId, ownerId: user._id }).exec();
-    if (!message) return false;
-    await Inbox.remove({_id: message._id, ownerId: user._id}).exec();
-  }
+  const message = await Inbox.findOne({_id: messageId, ownerId: user._id }).exec();
+  if (!message) return false;
+  await Inbox.remove({_id: message._id, ownerId: user._id}).exec();
 
   return true;
 }
@@ -36,10 +27,6 @@ export async function deleteMessage (user, messageId) {
 export async function clearPMs (user) {
   user.inbox.newMessages = 0;
 
-  // compatibility
-  user.inbox.messages = {};
-  user.markModified('inbox.messages');
-
   await Promise.all([
     user.save(),
     Inbox.remove({ownerId: user._id}).exec(),
diff --git a/website/server/models/user/schema.js b/website/server/models/user/schema.js
index 680ca49fa0..d8517a753d 100644
--- a/website/server/models/user/schema.js
+++ b/website/server/models/user/schema.js
@@ -559,11 +559,7 @@ let schema = new Schema({
   tags: [TagSchema],
 
   inbox: {
-    // messages are stored in the Inbox collection, this path will be removed
-    // as soon as the migration has run and all the messages have been removed from here
-    messages: {type: Schema.Types.Mixed, default: () => {
-      return {};
-    }},
+    // messages are stored in the Inbox collection
     newMessages: {type: Number, default: 0},
     blocks: {type: Array, default: () => []},
     optOut: {type: Boolean, default: false},