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no longer keep messages duration than 1 year

Open daxcore opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

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Bug description

Unfortunately there is no option to set longer duration than 1 year for keep messages feature. There are many events that come up once a year, where it would be nice to have these messages still there. Therefore I would appreciate to have a 2 years duration option.

Screenshots

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Device

>= Pixel 7

Android version

GrapheneOS (Android 15)

Signal version

>= 7.34.2

Link to debug log

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daxcore avatar Mar 01 '25 21:03 daxcore

There's an option "forever". Would that be too long? What's your device and Signal version? Android here.

steelowheel avatar Mar 02 '25 08:03 steelowheel

Ah sorry, I know about the default option "forever". But indeed, this one is too long.

Currently we running into trouble with available device storage, e.g. because Signal doesn't support less than 2 backups. So in total there is signals app data plus two backup files plus space for the next backup.

daxcore avatar Mar 02 '25 11:03 daxcore

We recently updated the true duration of "1 year" to be 367 days. This is so that people can still see a message that is exactly one year old (accounting for leap years), for things like birthdays and whatnot. Does that help your situation?

greyson-signal avatar Mar 03 '25 14:03 greyson-signal

Unfortunately this doesn't catch all of my use-cases, that is the reason asking for a new 2 years duration option. E.g. insurances and other stuff, where the cycle is more like upto 1.5 years... With 2 years I would feel comfortable and it is much better than the current forever option which results in more than 10 GB app data and a size of more than 14 GB for a single backup file. So in total just Signal needs >52 GB storage currently.

daxcore avatar Mar 03 '25 18:03 daxcore

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

stale[bot] avatar May 03 '25 04:05 stale[bot]

This issue has been closed due to inactivity.

stale[bot] avatar May 10 '25 14:05 stale[bot]

:/

daxcore avatar May 15 '25 13:05 daxcore