Are Chat messages ever deleted?

[agarcia17]

Does NodeBB ever delete chat messages from the database? for example, maybe if chats messages between two users reaches a certain amount of messages or after a certain time has passed since the message was sent?

If it does delete them, how would I go about disabling it from doing it?

[Mega]

@agarcia17 said:

If it does delete them, how would I go about disabling it from doing it?

I also wonder, whether any messages will be removed?

[a_5mith]

As far as I know, they're not deleted. However the UI for chats will only allow you to go back to the last 3 weeks/months (don't remember which).

[Mega]

I cannot figure out, why should we restrict message history to 3 months at all?

Is there any reason why won't we able to have there an infinite scrolling?
Or, let's say, a button "load 20 more messages" at top of the history, till there is at least one more message that didn't shown yet

[agarcia17]

@a_5mith thanks

[a_5mith]

@Mega said:

I cannot figure out, why should we restrict message history to 3 months at all?

Is there any reason why won't we able to have there an infinite scrolling?
Or, let's say, a button "load 20 more messages" at top of the history, till there is at least one more message that didn't shown yet

It's not long term. Trouble is, on a busy forum, multiple users loading huge conversations would bring your server down. Or make it as slow as turtle Olympics.

Until an infinite scroll is implemented. The UI just states 3 months. It will be changed at some point. There's an issue on github about it.

[A Former User]

gh#2475 and gh#2513 are relevant to this discussion.

barisusakli created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed chat inbox limit #2475

akhoury created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed [feature request] chat history older than 3 months #2513

[Mega]

@a_5mith @Ted Thank you!