[Feature]: Export full chat history

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Difficulty
5/5
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15/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
data

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating how chat history, attachments, and disappearing messages are stored across the all-platform app, then clarify the export format and privacy behavior. Done should include an agreed export flow covering text, images, groups, and disappearing messages.

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Feature

It would be nice to be able to export a full chat log for a contact or group for record keeping or evidence of abuse. This could be a simple button in settings somewhere to export it as text file. The format could look something like this

Alice: Hello
Bob: hi
Alice: etc

I'm not sure how images could be handled but you could have the export be saved as a zip archive with each image assigned a number.

This feature would be pretty useful for record keeping. I'm not sure how it would be handled with disappearing messages. I would hope that you could have some record but maybe I'm missing the point of disappearing messages.

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