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Exactly. Keeping message history is a liability. There is no need to keep all old messages beyond one week. If there is something specific worth saving, there a
by tonyztan 6y ago
Exactly. Keeping message history is a liability. There is no need to keep all old messages beyond one week. If there is something specific worth saving, there are apps for taking/pasting notes.
- FalconSensei 6y ago> There is no need to keep all old messages beyond one week. Based on what use case? Many times I searched old personal and group chats, to find what I wanted in a message from 1 year before
- benhurmarcel 6y agoWell for example here Whatsapp is the main communication medium with your landlord. It's useful to keep that full communication history in case any disagreement comes up.
- pgalvin 6y agoI can think of many reasons full message history is valuable. - a friend says something that you don’t realise is important until months later and need to reference - a friend or partner dies and you wish to revisit old times by reading your messages - a couple wish to nostalgically re-read random conversations from their early time together - a group chat for work or students shares valuable resources that you wish to reference, but is impractical to make copies of the dozens of messages - legal reasons if somebody accused you of saying or doing something you did not do - you’re going to an address (for example) that somebody sent you a week prior, but you forgot to save it People are forgetful, people are emotional and nostalgic, and people are argumentative. All very good reasons for a chat history. Disappearing messages are simply always opt-in precisely because most people do not want it.
- Frondo 6y agoI'm sympathetic to all of these, but I do remind myself that sentimental reasoning is probably as close to diametrically opposed to Signal's goals as you could be.