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I love the idea !!! Not sure when i'd use it but non the less i think it's awesome.

I'd say that users that would want this feature would also like some sense of "security" that the post is actually deleted. there is no sense of that.

another 2 cents :) How about letting us decide when it gets deleted rather than the magic 7 days?

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I am glad you like it!

There is a slider you can set that changes the duration. I fixed it at 1-7-30 days. I probably need to make that feature more visible though. And I'll add in the option to let users set the kill duration.

I do hard-delete the posts once they expire, but I don't know how I could give users a sense of 'security' that it has gone into the void. Do you have any suggestions?

Maybe, once a post has been created you could show a message stating exact datetime on which the post will be deleted?

Will do!

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