Conversations and sharing

New folder, just under New chat in the sidebar (on a phone, the folder icon beside the search field), creates one — type a name and press Enter. The chat list then groups by folder, with everything unfiled listed below.

Each chat’s row menu moves it: Move to a folder, or Remove from folder when it is in one. Renaming is inline — pick Rename from the menu or double-click the chat’s name, type, and press Enter. Folders rename the same way, from the menu on the folder’s heading.

The search box in the sidebar looks through your whole history — chat names and what was actually said. Results appear as you type and take over the list while you search; each hit shows a snippet of the matching text, or notes that the chat’s name matched. Press Escape or clear the box to get your full list back.

“No chats match” always means the search really ran. If the search itself could not run, the sidebar says that instead — the two are different facts and are never made to look alike.

Pick Share… from a chat’s menu. Sharing publishes a copy of the conversation frozen at that moment — messages you send afterwards never appear on it. The copy lives at a link with a long random address that cannot be guessed, and the page asks search engines not to list it. Anyone who has the link can read it, so only send it to people you trust.

The link works until you turn it off. Turn off link stops it immediately. Update copy publishes a fresh snapshot at a new address — and the old link stops working at the same moment, so a link you replaced can never come back to life. Deleting the chat turns its link off too.

The public page is honest about what it is: it shows the date it was shared, says the conversation may have continued since, and states out loud when anything was left out. A revoked link, an expired link and a link that never existed all show the same not-found page — nobody can probe an address to learn whether a conversation exists.

Delete in a chat’s menu asks you to confirm, then does three things. The chat leaves your history immediately. Any share link it had is turned off first — and if that cannot be done, the delete refuses rather than leave a public copy of a chat you meant to remove. Then, after a 30-day grace window, the conversation and its messages — including the things built in the thread — are permanently deleted; copies in our database provider’s encrypted backups are replaced within a limited period. Files you uploaded into it, and the pictures in documents Vresk designed in it, are stored separately and are not removed with it: they stay stored, and in your data export, until all your data or your account is deleted, and Vresk doesn’t show them in any conversation.

For what we store in the first place, and how to erase your whole account, see Your data.