{"id":7917,"date":"2026-04-24T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:05:43","slug":"ambiguous-disappearing-messages-will-be-unpinned-when-their-timer-expires-and-the-message-is-removed-from-the-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2026\/04\/24\/ambiguous-disappearing-messages-will-be-unpinned-when-their-timer-expires-and-the-message-is-removed-from-the-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguous &#8221;Disappearing messages will be unpinned when their timer expires and the message is removed from the chat.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Using a supported version?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates.<\/li>\n<li>I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Overall summary<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve set notes to self to disappear after 1 day. I chose one message to be pinned, was prompted to select the time to pin the message for, and selected 7 days. I was shown the message in the title.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now unsure whether the message will be unpinned and removed after 1 day or 7 days. My guess would be 7 days, but either way, I think the message should make this explicit, or at least unambiguous wrt. which timer takes precedence.<\/p>\n<h3>Steps to reproduce<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>set notes to self to disappear after 1 day<\/li>\n<li>send a note to yourself<\/li>\n<li>choose to pin the message<\/li>\n<li>select to pin the message for 7 days<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Expected result<\/h3>\n<p>Any of these, in order of preference:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8221;This disappearing message will be unpinned and removed from the chat after 7 days.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8221;This disappearing message will be unpinned and removed from the chat after 1 day.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8221;Disappearing messages will be unpinned and the removed from the chat when the pinning timer expires.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8221;Disappearing messages will be unpinned and the removed from the chat when the disappearance timer expires.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Actual result<\/h3>\n<p>&#8221;Disappearing messages will be unpinned when their timer expires and the message is removed from the chat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Screenshots<\/h3>\n<p><em>No response<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Signal version<\/h3>\n<p>8.7.0<\/p>\n<h3>Operating system<\/h3>\n<p>Ubuntu 24.04<\/p>\n<h3>Version of Signal on your phone<\/h3>\n<p>8.6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The message should make this explicit, or at least unambiguous wrt. which timer takes precedence: the disappearing timeout or the pinning timeout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8860],"tags":[2143,14095],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vianhallintajarjestelmat","tag-saavutettavuus","tag-signal","sijainti-github"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7920,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}