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I don't get why this is so important to people. I personally love Signal's disappearing messages feature - seldom would I ever want to scroll back through chat for anything.

If I did have some valuable chat history in an app, wouldn't I just want to save it out as a file I can keep somewhere?

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I often search through old chat messages to look up timestamps, certain links, what I said or someone else said. I don't use telegram or any of the mobile messengers, but the feature would be important to me.

Also when you know the app is not going to remove them, it's more likely to leave non-critical but still value able data in there. (someone's address, photos, a link that was shared with you etc)

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