We still have Discourse Encrypt plugin - Would running community updates cause any issues?

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Hi,

We are still using Discourse Encrypt plugin. We are going to phase it out.

We haven’t run updates in 4 months. Can I now set:
allow_new_encrypted_pms = false
allow_decrypting_pms = true

and then run the updates after a backup? Would having the deprecated Discourse Encrypt plugin cause any updates issue?

PS: earlier, we tried the updates without turning off allow_new_encrypted_pms and it wrecked all the custom work we had on the site.

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That’s probably unrelated to the Discourse Encrypt plugin. There have been many changes to Ember.

I’d probably spin up a staging site, restore the backup and see what changes are required to your “custom work”.

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Thank you, @pfaffman !!

If we have to continue encryption for Private Messages, is there a way within Discourse? Or is customisation (is it even feasible?) the only option?

Also, if we can’t do encryption, I want to give my customers at least 3 months to decrypt/save their messages before removing the plugin. Can we do that? I mean, can we remove the plugin after 3-4 months?

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Sure. Wait 4 more months to upgrade. :person_shrugging:

Posts in the plugin topic say that it’s broken, so I wouldn’t try upgrading until you’re ready to remove it.