I am hoping this is fake news, but a number of news outlets are reporting it.
Link.
Dang. I love to break out the insult ones for the work breakroom – real conversation starters. But they don’t seem to make them … mean enough for my taste.
Perhaps its another year for my homemade chicken heart tomato sauce. Always a crowd pleaser.
Doesn’t Brach’s also make candy hearts?
I was sort of confused at the news coverage of this, as if people are truly devastated…I thought conversation hearts were loathed? Personally, I like them, but Necco tweaked the flavor formulas too many times in later years. The sour ones were just plain awful.
I had some of the Brach’s last year; the flavors were decent (the yellow tastes like banana instead of stale lemon).
Yet another Great American Tradition ruined by The Millennials!!!1!
I used to get them all the time around Valentine’s day, but now I try to avoid gelatin. Brach’s used to make SweeTart-style hearts without gelatin, but I haven’t seen those in many years. 
I just saw the same thing. I guess the original Conversation Hearts sold far and away more than the other brands. Personally I won’t miss them, but it is the end of yet another long-standing candy tradition.
it’s not the end just a gap year. The company that bought the brand in September just didn’t have time to produce them for this year. They are expected back next year. (Cite)
The same company also bought Necco Wafers. Those should be available again later this year. 
Good news for wafer fans, the ones they made last year should be fine for another few years. As such things are measured.
It’ll be good to have them back. They’ve been a wafer so long.
Only by a handful of people who think it’s cool to hate popular things. They’ve been a beloved staple of Valentine’s Day for longer than I’ve been alive.
Conversation hearts were nasty. Never could eat those. They were cheap enough for passing out to friends.
Years ago, I made Valentine’s Day cookies for my fellow choristers. Each cookie contained several candy hearts. From what I saw, most people picked out the hearts and ate the rest of the cookies.
Anyone else get an “I Just Called To Say I Love You” earworm upon hearing the news?
mmm
(I know they’re not chocolate covered)
I feel like this should be either reported or saluted.
Whew. I don’t even eat those, but it would be sad to see tradition go.
Why not both? Reported for a salute?
For a sec there, I thought Stevie Wonder had died.
Seriously though, the wafers last practically forever if you keep them well wrapped in a cool, dry place. 
It always annoyed me that the conversation heart flavors didn’t exactly match the wafers… The pink wafers, for example, were wintergreen, while the pink hearts were nasty bitter chemical flavored.
Right, because they’re such a fine expression of human sentiment and original wit, bundled in the wonderfully subtle flavors of paste. Every year I wait with heightened anticipation to see what new-found cleverness and insight they might bring, to remind us what love and friendship are really all about, as we spend hours beholding these beautiful cultural treasures, passing them back and forth, to ponder how they define us as Americans.
“These candies are chalky and unpleasant!”
―Lrrr
“As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wondrous thing happened, why not. They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was at exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them: Earth. So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could have been happier unless it would have also been Valentine’s Day. What? It was? Hooray!”