The shoutbox could use a button to clear it completely.

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benshell’s picture

benshell commented
Priority: Normal » Minor

I'm not completely sure what you mean. Do you mean a clear button for admins to remove all existing shouts? It seems like this would be a dangerous feature. It would be like a "delete all nodes" button.

fallacious’s picture

fallacious commented

That's exactly what I mean - empty the associated database tables at the click of a button.

benshell’s picture

benshell commented

An option has been added to delete old shouts via a cron task. The administrator can set the number of days until a shout expires. I know this isn't exactly what you were looking for, but I can't think of any reason why the entire shoutbox would need to be deleted often. If you want to delete all the shouts, just access the database directly.

mdubious’s picture

mdubious commented

I'd love to have this feature. If you need a reason, then mine is this:

My sites using your fine shoutbox are event-driven, with each event separated by a month or two, and new admins coming in with each new iteration. So each batch of shouts are relevant to only the one iteration that the site is currently being used for. So having a clear all shouts button in the shoutbox admin page would be a really useful feature for me, and I can easily imagine, others too.