Comment by Karellen
2 years ago
Heh. I have the opposite problem. I'd like a way to have Signal auto-delete conversations and media from my device after a certain amount of time.
Yes, there are auto-delete options, but those apply to the group/chat as a whole, and other people in some of the groups I belong to want to keep their chat history. I'm not totally opposed to them doing so, but would like the option to just delete my copies.
(Signal uses more space on my iPhone than all my other apps combined, and I've had problems with upgrades being blocked because there wasn't enough space remaining to install them. Manually deleting hundreds of photos from individual groups to make room is such a pain in the ass.)
Large group chats should have an expiry of one week or so, maybe 4 weeks at the longest, otherwise it gets crazy. Unfortunately the best way to delete those old messages in your local chat is to delete the conversation and rejoin it.
Admins really should have a "purge all history older than X" option. They let you do it one by one manually, but it's basically impossible to automate, and doing it manually is super tedious.
You can make your own group with a different expiry timer.
Well...yes?
But what good would that be? If the people in the group I'm currently in don't want to reduce the expiry time of the group we're currently in, why would they join my new group with a reduced expiry time? Even if the new group was exactly the same as the old group, without a setting that makes it less attractive, why would they join my new group when all the people they want to talk to are currently in the old group?
Am I missing something? How do you suppose that creating a new group would play out in a way that improves the situation?
Different expiry for each flow of contamination.
Yeah, it's a thing.
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