# Retention settings per chat channel

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/retention-settings-per-chat-channel/226704>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [May 10, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retention-settings-per-chat-channel/226704 "2022-05-10T20:29:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retention-settings-per-chat-channel/226704/2 "2022-05-10T23:06:17Z")

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> [@jimkleiber](#):
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> any suggestion on how hard this would be to implement in a plugin?

Not that I’ve looked at the code, but it should be pretty easy to set up a job that would clean out a channel. The hard part would be figuring out a ux to manage it. If you were content to hard code it, it shouldn’t be but a few lines of code per category once you figure out how to create a job.

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