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Are Chat messages ever deleted?

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  • agarcia17A Offline
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    agarcia17
    wrote on last edited by agarcia17
    #1

    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?

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  • MegaM Offline
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    Aza Noriega Community Rep
    replied to agarcia17 on last edited by
    #2

    @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?

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    #3

    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).

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  • MegaM Offline
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    Aza Noriega Community Rep
    wrote on last edited by Mega
    #4

    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

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  • agarcia17A Offline
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    replied to a_5mith on last edited by
    #5

    @a_5mith thanks 🙂

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    replied to Aza Noriega on last edited by
    #6

    @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.

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    #7

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

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  • MegaM Offline
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    replied to a_5mith on last edited by
    #8

    @a_5mith @Ted Thank you! 👍

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