NIP-17: Expiration preferences

[vitorpamplona]

Trying to see if there is an appetite for formal disappearing messages in NIP-17.

By adding a setting to the relay list event, each user can make their own chat disappear at a fixed schedule. If enough people implement this feature, it would delete sent and received messages together, avoiding the weird UX of my messages disappearing while other users' messages stay.

Each user can then have their own choice.

[staab]

Seems ok to me. Do you think people would want to override their preference per conversation?

[vitorpamplona]

Each user can have a different preference. We don't need to override each other.

[staab]

I mean per conversation. I might have a "note to self" that I don't want to expire, or a particular conversation that I want to expire very quickly.

[vitorpamplona]

Ohh.. yeah.. no idea how to integrate that

[wcat7]

I also tend to prefer disappearing messages for individual conversations. For example, if a kind14/15 event has an expiration time, then that sets the conversation? - This is also the approach used by 0xchat.

[vitorpamplona]

kind14/15 event has an expiration time, then that sets the conversation?

Ohhh interesting... So, like the subject tag sets the subject for the rest of the conversation... I don't dislike it, but it kinda forces everyone to agree to a single time without the need to.

Do people actually have different expirations per conversation? It feels hard to keep in mind that certain things disappear faster than others.

[staab]

Do people actually have different expirations per conversation?

This is how Signal works, I don't think they even have an option to set it globally.

[vitorpamplona]

This is how Signal works, I don't think they even have an option to set it globally.

Yep, but do people actually use it? Or is it just overengineered?

[staab]

I don't really use it, but a lot of privacy-conscious people I chat with do

[rabble]

Seems reasonable to me.