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s/specific messages/& and conversations/ > I don't understand why people want to save their whole chat history Valuable messages and conversations can happen
by jolmg 6y ago
s/specific messages/& and conversations/
> I don't understand why people want to save their whole chat history
Valuable messages and conversations can happen too often that it's a hassle to save them manually. This is probably more common in group chats where lots of people occasionally share valuable stuff.
- hackmiester 6y agoYour point and use case are valid but unrelated. I agree with the parent comment but not with your sentiment.
- FalconSensei 6y agoThe thing is: your use case and wants seems to be different than like, 90% of Whatsapp users, as they expect to never lose their history. So... Signal is not a replacement to Whatsapp
- hackmiester 6y agoThat's fine with me. I was just pointing out that those two requests are not really related. I don't know much about WhatsApp, and I've never lost any message in Signal, so I am not sure I am well equipped to discuss whether it's fit for that purpose. But I would certainly love to save individual messages in some sort of vault, as well.
- carlhjerpe 6y agoPlease provide source for the 90% figure.
- godelski 6y agoSure, conversations. But honestly I feel like saving everything just generates more noise and makes it difficult to find the signal.
- fsflover 6y agoSee my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690699.