Disappearing Messages similar to the Signal messaging app

[gitr0n1n]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Disappearing Messages similar to the Signal messaging app. It is a pain to manually delete messages. An auto purge method after x days/weeks would be great for server resources and privacy.

Describe the solution you'd like
Implement Disappearing Messages similar to the Signal messaging app.

Describe alternatives you've considered
None, this is straight forward and should be a default feature.

Additional context
review a great implementation of this feature in this app: https://www.signal.org/

Related Issues:
matrix-org/synapse#6287
element-hq/element-meta#729
element-hq/element-web#16187
#3948
element-hq/element-android#2691

Dated Issue:
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2497

[tredondo]

How does this have only one upvote? It's a deal breaker for people coming from Signal or Wire.

[fqlx]

Disappearing messages is a deal breaker for me, I wish Element would support it because the app is fantastic.

[kittykat]

Thank you, we appreciate that you took your time to file this enhancement request. I am going to close it for now in favour of a cross-platform issue to help us track the request more effectively. Please follow this issue for further updates: element-hq/element-meta#682

[wokawoka]

+1