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988 points keyboardJones | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.487s | source
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MrDresden ◴[09 Sep 25 06:18 UTC] No.45178088[source]▶
Personally I've never understood the need some have for keeping chat histories. So this isn't a feature I'll use, but am sure others will.

And remember, Signal is a nonprofit. If you use it, and if you can, you should be donating.

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1. pfix ◴[09 Sep 25 06:57 UTC] No.45178431[source]▶
I just had a use case the other day: my mom sent me a photo of a handwritten recipe from my great grandmother a year ago. I only remembered asking about asking, not about the response, so I was happy to still have that pic in my history. Had I downloaded the Pic, it would be lost among all the other crap I store all ocer the place. This way it was preserved with the context and even a voice message from my grandmother (not great grandmother) remarking on it.