This issue is one of those that make it very difficult to build a single "secure chat" app that does everything for everyone. Personally, I want an automatic,

This issue is one of those that make it very difficult to build a single "secure chat" app that does everything for everyone. Personally, I want an automatic, encrypted network backup of all my messages so I don't lose them if my device is lost or destroyed. But I know lots of folks around here are excited about the automatic delete thing too. It's going to be very hard to make something that all of us can be happy with.