# Keep only last "update message" for webxdc

**URL:** <https://support.delta.chat/t/keep-only-last-update-message-for-webxdc/2135>\
**Category:** Feature Proposal\
**Tags:** webxdc-api-future\
**Created:** [July 3, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/keep-only-last-update-message-for-webxdc/2135 "2022-07-03T11:18:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![webratte](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/webratte/32/16_2.png) [@webratte](https://support.delta.chat/u/webratte)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/keep-only-last-update-message-for-webxdc/2135/1 "2022-07-03T11:18:51Z")

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If I use wexdc in a group I get everytime if somone make a update (e.g. for a checklist) a "update message"That’s really good.

But if I use it in a big Chat with many changes I get really much “update messages”.  
On my phone it’s easy to delete not needed “update messages”.  
Now, after my holidays, I opened this chat with the desktop client. The Chat is full with tonns of “update messages”.

Would it be a idea automatically delete not needed messages and only keep the last “update messages”?

This messages should only deleted in device an stay on server for sharing between clients.

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**Author:** ![webratte](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/webratte/32/16_2.png) [@webratte](https://support.delta.chat/u/webratte)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/keep-only-last-update-message-for-webxdc/2135/2 "2022-07-03T11:25:32Z")

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It seems I’m not the first one 🤷🏻‍♂️

> <https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/pull/3395>
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> this pr combines series of webxdc info messages to one message.
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> \<img width=30…0 src=https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9800740/171855520-d9875a3f-68a3-4f27-a585-c4fc29662104.png\>
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> cleaning-up approach is:
> \- if on adding a new info message, the last message is an info message from the same sender \_and\_ for the same webxdc instance ...
> \- ... replace the text of the existing info message instead of adding a new one
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> i assume, this works out of the box on all platforms.
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> this will solve all issues we currently have with the existing highscores (only the last highscore is shown, that's fine) and "edited" information (they often have the same text anyway). 
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> of course, one can imagine situations where the cleaning up is not what is optimal for the webxdc, however, i think, the advantages of a cleaned up chat are much bigger.
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> and webxdc can deal with that, therefore, i added a hint to the reference (should go to the book or so as well, but that is not part of this pr)

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://support.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/keep-only-last-update-message-for-webxdc/2135/3 "2026-10-06T15:04:08Z")

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