Yes, manually finding out who the operator is and asking every single one to delete unwanted messages is truly a production ready chat experience.
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I keep saying... You either control your relays or you don't own shit on nostr.
He can also use 0xChat delete function that sends out the request
Amethyst too, but very few relays delete NIP-17 messages.
Thats a problem for the relay really. My problem is that its visible and cluttering my stuff. A syncable event that tells amethyst not to display that anymore shouldn't have to depend on how well the relays work. If amethyst is capable of it where did you hide the delete button so I can leave those DM's?
I think visibility is good. Users need to see which relays are not honoring delete and hold them accountable.
A "request deletion of entire mesage thread," however, would be an excellent feature.
Yep, but without relays actually deleting them, the message will come back over and over again, just to be deleted when the phone loads the deletion request locally.
Nothing Amethyst can do beats a good relay.
Click and hold, delete. But unless you have a good relay, it won't matter.
Also, relays can delete all your DMs with a simple request. Amethyst can only do one by one.
I still do not see a button for this. If its there its well hidden. I am not trying to delete my own messages, I am trying to delete unsolicited conversations to declutter the DM's.
On the client, you can only delete your own things for now. But on your inbox relay, you can do whatever you want. That's why it is so important to talk to them.
We will develop features to hide events from others but if they are not erased from the relay, over time they will just consume more and more data.
Ill pair the critisism with a proposal. It needs a NIP or something that does two things. First it tells the clients receiving the nip that anything prior should be treated as deleted. Second, it should tell the compatible relays the messages no longer have to be stored.
That way if someone sends some unsolicited stuff or simply a conversation I am not interested in I can actually get rid of it properly and declutter.
Right now on Matrix I can simply leave the room, the DM experience is great there. Nostr is an incomplete and incompatible mess on this front. It needs fixing, not workarounds.