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#Answer
Nothing was lost. The plugin now keeps its text in translations/translations.en.yml, and on the first start after updating it moves your messages there for you.
What happens is:
- Every message you had customised in messages.yml is copied into translations/translations.en.yml.
- messages.yml is renamed to old_messages.yml so nothing is deleted.
- From then on, the file to edit is the one in the translations folder.
The editor text is deliberately left out of that copy, so the in-game editor picks up the newer wording rather than an old copy of it.
old_messages.yml is only kept as a safety net. Once you are happy with your messages you can delete it, and the plugin will not read it again either way.
Everything the file can do — the %prefix% placeholder, how a translation falls back to English, and running the plugin in another language — is on Languages & Translations.