# Chat retention days issue

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-retention-days-issue/248477>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [December 10, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-retention-days-issue/248477 "2022-12-10T12:44:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-retention-days-issue/248477/1 "2022-12-10T12:44:49Z")

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Hello,

I noticed 2 issues with chat retention days.

1. There are separate settings to set up `chat channel retention days` and `chat dm retention days`. But it seems it use the `chat channel retention days` value on personal message settings page too.

I setted up 2 different retention day.

 ![Screenshot 2022-12-10 at 13.17.10](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/2/7/227b133afd2fb2304cdac1eb5bce03848c159ead.png)

 ![personal chat settings](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/a/7/ea7108682bd57dbfe5a42a98733f9c3f5824ca28.png) ![chat channel settings](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/0/c/d0cd3d56a7d04e36293bcc79b4ad8d6378c05761.png)

The chat retention reminders in messages show the correct value.

 ![personal chat](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/4/c/94c45a40c79800b9d0bc9a97934a43cec734d052.png)  
 ![chat channel](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/2/e/22e634d196d1ab835990e800af81cf2792e8f4d3.png)

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2. When the `chat channel retention days` and/or `chat dm retention days` set to `0` it means retain messages forever. But now on (channel / personal) retention day messages it seems like it saved for `0` day.

 ![chat channel settings](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/c/8/ac8588bc2eeeecf50980da5940072188bb5b65f0.png)

![chat channel message](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/6/3/0639fea0813c1a640ca1ead10e63e69cfc19cc90.png)

Thank you 🙂

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