Are chat messages hard deleted after the retention period?

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Are chat posts kept in the database after the retention period, after chat post deletion or after chat channel deletion? Thanks.

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I guess this is partly related to the question above about what happens to chat posts when they’re not visible any more: Official Discourse Chat Plugin - #15

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My bad, I meant to reply to that and it’s slipped away from me.

Currently they are hard-deleted[1] after the retention period. :+1:

For individual chat message or chat channel deletions, they are initially soft-deleted[2], and we’re adding in the bit that will make them hard-deleted along with the others once the retention period rolls round.

(Small note: Even though the channels are soft-deleted initially, there is currently no way to resurrect them once gone. It’s on the roadmap, but hasn’t been scheduled as yet)

  1. ie. ‘Permanently removed from the database’ ↩︎

  2. ie. ‘Hidden from public view’ ↩︎

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Just a small update on this, but this should be fixed by

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1197

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