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Received dm's can't be deleted? Dm's can't be closed? (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Boomkop3@reddthat.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This should be a pretty basic feature, just not having a private message be there anymore. But for some reason that does not work here?

I tried searching for this. I found a year old open issue on GitHub and some reddit users complaining about this very issue.

Talking with some people in the comments here, it seems like some people don't understand that one might not want a message to be in their face. Or the idea that just because something could be recovered doesn't mean we should treat it as an absolute

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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For example, last I heard, an administrator has to drop into a command line to delete media from removed posts, otherwise they’d still be accessible if the URL was known. (Think illegal material.)

that's not true anymore, there's a dashboard built into the website now

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's good to hear.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your instance still has to update, that feature appeared in 0.19.4

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@w0odl@lemmy.radio, are you aware of this update?

[–] w0odl@lemmy.radio 3 points 2 months ago

I was, but with it being a mostly media heavy update, I wanted to put it off a bit. I'll look into it soon and maybe 0.19.5 as well. We may use image proxying in the future. This comment is mostly talking about new moderating tools. https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements