Disappear messages after timer ends

[julianfairfax]

I know presage turns off disappearing messages when you send a message to a contact with them on. But, it would be nice if disappearing messages sent from other devices (and so leaving it on) would disappear when the timer ends. (Downstream issue: #69)

[julianfairfax]

Basically a duplicate of #93

[julianfairfax]

Now that #93 has been fixed by @Schmiddiii, this is an issue

[julianfairfax]

@gferon what would the difficulty be of implementing this now that #93 has been fixed?

[gferon]

Not particularly hard, we can add a function that runs every second (or less often) and deletes expired messages.

[Schmiddiii]

I guess a cleaner solution would be to have a store-method that gets the next timestamp where a message needs to be deleted and repeatedly sleep to that point and delete. This could also be maybe put into a "maintainence queue" which e.g. deletes messages, resends failed messages (once failed messages are stored), .... Probably not as simple as repeatedly trying every second.

[baumkuchen42]

Hey, are there plans to work on this issue soon? I'm worried people might exploit this issue, to the detriment of their conversation partner.

[gferon]

Hey, are there plans to work on this issue soon? I'm worried people might exploit this issue, to the detriment of their conversation partner.

Fair point, I'll see if I can get back to it soon.