At the moment it seems not possible to archive a Conpherence chat. But that would be somehow natural.
## Proposal
1. add a "Status" field in the Conpherence like in Project
**Exploration 1.1**: how a status is implemented in Projects?
Project is weird, is a varchar but in only contains integers 0 (active) and 100 (disabled):
$ SHOW CREATE TABLE phabricator_project.project;
`status` varchar(32) NOT NULL`
-- no key on status
WARNING: Maybe we may want to refactor Project column to be `INT` lol...
**Exploration 1.2**: how a status is implemented in Dashboard app?
Dashboard has a varchar saving `active` and `archived`:
$ SHOW CREATE TABLE phabricator_dashboard.dashboard;
...
`status` varchar(32) NOT NULL
-- no key on status
**Exploration 1.3**: how a status is implemented in File Meme app?
The Meme app seems to use the most efficient way, just a tinyint:
$ SHOW CREATE TABLE phabricator_file.file_imagemacro;
...
`isDisabled` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
KEY `key_disabled` (`isDisabled`)
→ we may want to proceed like in the File Meme app that seems the most efficient way, so, with a tinyint
→ we may want to add a database key on this disabled field, since it will be frequently queried and it will avoid a full table scan, and we will cover the situation of a Phorge with tons of chats in your Phorge (see next line)
2. only show active chats from the page `/conpherence/` (and curtain, top and floating)
3. add an "Archived" filter in https://we.phorge.it/conpherence/search/ and as default only show active chats