You can make messages disappear after any length of time between one second and four weeks. It also provides way more customization options than WhatsApp. Signal has offered vanishing messages since 2016. On the plus side, the feature is easy to enable: However, it also leaves your messages exposed for seven days. WhatsApp says this means you “don’t forget what you were chatting about”. Once the feature is enabled, new messages will stay for seven days before they disappear - and this can’t be adjusted. The company only started rolling out the feature in November 2020 - and the launch came with a catch. I think there'd be value in this from an ease-of-use perspective, even though there is no way to cryptographically guarantee that the deletion occurs.īeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.WhatsApp may be the world’s popular messenger, but it was a late arrival to the disappearing chats party. It would be pretty simple to implement, and we just need to agree on an LXMF field to use for a "deletion timestamp" value. Even if we add a message time out to all LXMF clients that currently exist, anyone can just implement their own client that ignores the self-destruct time.īut maybe it would still be valuable to add support for this in a standardised way, so clients that want to support it can. The self-destructing messages is a great idea, but it is really hard to implement from a cryptographic standpoint, at least in a way where we can guarantee that messages are actually deleted within their specified time-frame, since once someone has the message, you can't really "coerce" them to delete it. Thanks a lot for the feedback! Really great to hear you got it up and running without any major hurdles :)
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