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> frustrating countless employees who would have needed to refer to the chat message from yesterday about simple CLI commands/instructions etc The 24-hour auto

> frustrating countless employees who would have needed to refer to the chat message from yesterday about simple CLI commands/instructions etc The 24-hour auto-deletion is just a default that can be easily disabled, which is what you would do in this scenario. After you disable it, none of the messages in that chat will get auto-deleted going forward. That setting isn't buried deep in the menus either. You just right-click the chat for which you want to turn on history, and then left-click the "turn on chat history" button. You do it once for a given chat, and you never have to revisit it again, it will stay turned on until you intentionally turn it off. It helps that when you open a chat with a new chat group/person, it displays in very large text in the center "Turn on chat history to prevent messages from being auto-deleted in 24 hours", so it is difficult to forget to do so either.

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
What about the employees seemingly being told to make the chat private and the chat abruptly ending?
- filoleg 4y ago
  > What about the employees seemingly being told to make the chat private and the chat abruptly ending? If someone was told to make the chat private, that's a different story, and I wouldn't feel good about it either. Luckily, never heard anyone ask me to disable chat history, and my chat history has always been enabled with everyone (including group chats). Everyone is aware of it too, because it tells everyone in the chat when someone enables it.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
    Google employees created a [redacted] Chat with history on. The Google Play Operations Program Manager Lead quickly warned the group: “[redacted]” The Lead Project Manager for Google Photos asked: “[redacted]” The on-the-record portion of the Chat abruptly ended.
    - filoleg 4y ago
      Thanks for clarifying the situation. In that specific scenario, I agree with the common sentiment of the thread. My original comment definitely was not referring to that type of a situation, so I can totally see now why it got (totally understandably) downvoted.
silentsea90 4y ago
My response is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225339 Even extending this to a month for DMs is short enough. 6 months for group chats is better but not very satisfactory if one wants to refer to older chats.

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago

What about the employees seemingly being told to make the chat private and the chat abruptly ending?

filoleg 4y ago
> What about the employees seemingly being told to make the chat private and the chat abruptly ending? If someone was told to make the chat private, that's a different story, and I wouldn't feel good about it either. Luckily, never heard anyone ask me to disable chat history, and my chat history has always been enabled with everyone (including group chats). Everyone is aware of it too, because it tells everyone in the chat when someone enables it.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
  Google employees created a [redacted] Chat with history on. The Google Play Operations Program Manager Lead quickly warned the group: “[redacted]” The Lead Project Manager for Google Photos asked: “[redacted]” The on-the-record portion of the Chat abruptly ended.
  - filoleg 4y ago
    Thanks for clarifying the situation. In that specific scenario, I agree with the common sentiment of the thread. My original comment definitely was not referring to that type of a situation, so I can totally see now why it got (totally understandably) downvoted.

silentsea90 4y ago

My response is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225339 Even extending this to a month for DMs is short enough. 6 months for group chats is better but not very satisfactory if one wants to refer to older chats.