The privacy story is incomplete without a way to actually hand the
data over. New Export section in the Privacy tab streams matching
messages to a Markdown, JSON or CSV file using Dalamud's file
dialog and a background thread, so the settings UI stays
responsive even when the export crawls a 150k-message archive.
MessageStore.StreamForExport returns a MessageEnumerator over
non-deleted rows filtered by ChatType list and date range, sorted
ascending. MessageExporter.ExportToFile takes that enumerator,
optionally narrows by SenderSource.TextValue substring (case-
insensitive), and writes one of three formats:
Markdown — human-readable, day headers, [HH:mm] ChatType Sender:
prefix per line, trailing total.
JSON — single object with metadata (filter snapshot, exported_at,
plugin name) and a messages array carrying id, ISO-8601 date,
numeric and named ChatType, source/target kinds, receiver,
content_id, sender plaintext, content plaintext.
CSV — header line plus quoted-when-needed rows for spreadsheet
ingestion.
Sender plaintext, channel filter, date range and format are
exposed as form fields above the Export button. Empty channel
selection means "all stored channels", a 0-day range means "no
time limit". Result count and target path are reported via
WrapperUtil notifications.
Fresh installs now open a setup window on first plugin load that
asks the user to pick one of three starting profiles. Existing
ChatTwo users keep skipping the wizard because the v6→v7 migration
sets Configuration.FirstRunCompleted = true on the same pass that
seeds the Privacy-First defaults — they already saw the migration
notification and can reopen the wizard from the Privacy tab if
they want to choose differently.
The three profiles map to concrete configuration sets:
Privacy-First (recommended): own-conversation whitelist (30
channels), retention enabled with the spec defaults (Tells 365
days, own-conversation channels 90, fallback 30).
Casual: Privacy-First plus public chat (Say/Shout/Yell, both
emote types, Novice Network) with a 1-day retention window so
RP players can scroll back the last scene without keeping
third-party speech forever.
Full History: filter off, retention off, GDPR warning shown
inline. Behaves like upstream Chat 2.
The wizard window is non-modal but covers a wide layout (three
side-by-side cards) and closing it without picking anything is
treated as accepting whatever defaults are already in place. The
Privacy tab gains a "show wizard again" button at the top so the
choice is reversible.
Add HellionStrings.resx as the English source and HellionStrings.de.resx
for German, with a hand-maintained Designer.cs that mirrors the layout
of Language.Designer.cs. Resource files live next to the upstream
Language.resx but are kept entirely separate so upstream cherry-picks
never collide with our translations and any future Hellion-only
translation tooling (Crowdin, manual contribution) can target this
file without touching the Chat 2 dictionary.
Plugin.LanguageChanged now updates HellionStrings.Culture alongside
Language.Culture so every UI string flips to the active locale at the
same moment. The Privacy tab title, master switch, channel groups
(now resolved per frame so the language can change without restart),
preset buttons, failsafe toggle, retention section, cleanup section,
status messages and notification bodies all read from HellionStrings.
The migration toast also takes its title and body from there.
Translations follow the project's German style: Du-Form, full
diacritics (ä, ö, ü), no em-dashes inside flowing prose, "Whitelist"
and "Linkshell" kept as-is because they are the established terms.
GetRetentionDays previously dropped straight from a missing user
override to RetentionDefaultDays, so every channel showed 30 days
in the UI even though the spec lists 365 for Tells and 90 for own-
conversation channels. Insert a middle layer: user override → spec
default → global default. The retention sweep now seeds its policy
from PrivacyDefaults.DefaultRetentionDays first and lets explicit
user overrides win on top, and the per-channel UI tags each row as
[override], [spec], or [global] so the source of the value is
visible without guessing.
Privacy filter trimmed history "by what" — this adds the time axis.
Each ChatType gets its own retention window in days; channels
without an explicit override fall back to a configurable global
default. The master switch defaults to OFF: the plugin never
deletes history without explicit user consent.
MessageStore.DeleteByRetentionPolicy builds an OR'd WHERE clause
over (ChatType = X AND Date < cutoff_X) plus a NOT IN catch-all
for the global default, hard-deletes matches, and only runs VACUUM
when something was actually removed.
Plugin.RunRetentionSweepIfDue runs at most once per 24 hours on a
background thread (off the load path) and persists the timestamp
so subsequent restarts skip the sweep until enough time has
passed. The Privacy tab gains a retention section with the master
switch, default-days input, per-channel override tree, reset
buttons, and a Ctrl+Shift "apply now" action that mirrors the
auto-sweep but on demand.
Spec defaults: Tells 365 days, own-conversation channels (Party,
Cross-Party, Alliance, PvP Team, FC, Linkshells 1-8, Cross-World
Linkshells 1-8, ExtraChat 1-8) 90 days, fallback 30 days.
The privacy filter only catches new messages. Two new MessageStore
methods support a one-shot retroactive sweep: GetMessageCountsByChatType
returns a (ChatType, count) snapshot so the UI can preview the impact,
and CleanupRetainOnly hard-deletes everything outside the supplied
allowlist and runs VACUUM to reclaim disk space.
The Privacy tab gains a new section with a refresh-preview button, a
keep/delete summary, a per-channel breakdown tree, and a Ctrl+Shift
confirm. The cleanup runs on a background thread so a 800+ MB VACUUM
does not block the settings UI; tabs are rebuilt via the framework
thread once the delete finishes. The cleanup deliberately uses the
saved Plugin.Config whitelist (not unsaved Mutable edits) so it stays
consistent with the prospective filter.
Introduce an opt-out channel whitelist so the database only persists
messages from channels the user explicitly wants to keep. Default
profile follows GDPR data minimization: own conversations only
(Tells, Party, FC, Linkshells, Cross-World Linkshells, Alliance,
ExtraChat). Public chat (Say/Shout/Yell), Novice Network, NPC
dialogue and system logs are dropped by default.
The filter sits inside MessageStore.UpsertMessage so any current or
future write path is covered uniformly. Configuration provides an
IsAllowedForStorage(ChatType) helper plus a "persist unknown
channels" failsafe (default off) for ChatTypes added by future
patches.
A new Privacy settings tab exposes the whitelist as grouped
checkboxes with three preset buttons (Privacy-First, Clear all,
Select all). Configuration version bumps from 6 to 7; existing
users are migrated to the Privacy-First defaults on first load
and notified once via the Dalamud notification manager.
Also includes a small .env.example and gitignore hygiene for local
development setup.
- Plugin commands trigger the command helper window now
- Fix auto translation with empty text appearing
- Switch up all dalamud payload usage to ROSS if possible
- Prepare 7.5 changes
- Cleanup
- /chat2Viewer is now sorted by date
- Echo everything that hasn't any channel set
- Fixed channel inputs are now enforced
- Added a warning for ECL channel mismatch
JonKazama-Hellion
Infi
Keda
Simon Schürrle
Darnell Williams
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