Completely fine with that, I agree

Don't use Telegram, let alone pay for it. So many red flags with Telegram.

Price is fair but features aren’t worth it.

Yes, and yes.

"I said this was happening 3 weeks ago. Here's the literal text of me sending it to you and you saying 'Okay thanks' in reply."

Shuts down an argument real quick.

History search is great when you have a lot of friends and poor memory. Perhaps not your use case ?

I never set auto expiry and often search messages. Sometimes it's because I want to find a specific fact or datum from two years ago; other times it's just for a reminder of a memory. On occasion, if the history wasn't there, people might remember something important differently.

Me and my wife and wife sends information, pictures , whatever. I often search my messages for stuff

Yes and yes

Though the same I like my conversations disappear when I need to reinstall Signal.

Yes, and yes. But most of it's because I've moved all communication over to it.

If I have anything that shouldn't stick around it doesn't stick around, If I need my grocery list from last month it's there though.

That said, I really don't have any interest in backups. It's an ephemeral stream at best that is there when I need it. And there are parts of it disappear when they're no longer needed.

The days where we presumed we could safely bitch about things to our friends over social media are clearly gone and privacy is of ultimate importance.

Pretend it's 1984, and you won't get yourself in trouble.

Most Whatsapp users (my parents) want to keep logs of everything, its become normalised.

out of curiosity: what duration do you have?

You are right, I don't really search my messages that much. Most important conversion is going by email for most people still.

If anyone is actually going to get that right in a mainstream product, it will probably be Signal.

I think it's cloud backups.

In the GitHub commit it's called Renew your Signal Backups subscription.