Option to keep note forever

[ilyakonovalenko]

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Currently there is no way to keep note forever. 1 month may not be enough in some cases.

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[CorentinTh]

Hi @ilyakonovalenko
Thank you for your feedback. Adding a "never expire" option is indeed a good idea.
Before implementing it, I have some concerns:

1. Adding another entry in the expiration delay picker may cause some overflow.

   • Option 1: Add a "never" option in the selector on the right.
   • Option 2: Add a "never expire" checkbox like below the picker.
   • Option 3: Use a more traditional select with dropdown, not really fan, it adds more clicks.

2. I may disable this feature for the public instance for multiple reasons:

   • The instance is free and since it's fully open-source, I don't want to pay for a lot of storage.
   • Their is a risk of abuse, someone could use the instance to store illegal content since it does not require any authentication.

Enclosed was designed to share ephemeral content, so I didn't think about adding such persistent feature. But I understand that it could be useful in some cases.

[Zoobdude]

+1 for the 'never' selector using a separate toggle.

Making it possible to disable this via a ENV var would be ideal.

[ilyakonovalenko]

Option 1 would be good, but some CSS adjustments needed (maybe lower font size or reduced padding).

[joshwithers]

I'd love to have a config page to disable this :)

[CorentinTh]

I added a toggle to allow the creation of notes that never expiresin #341, it's available for version >= 1.11.0

• Set PUBLIC_IS_SETTING_NO_EXPIRATION_ALLOWED to allow users to create notes that never expires, it is disabled by default
• It's disabled on the public instance
• Additionally you can use PUBLIC_DEFAULT_NOTE_NO_EXPIRATION to configure weither the note should never expires by default