Archiving a memory, or a whole page

Deleting is forever. Archiving is the gentler door: the thing is put away, not lost, and it comes back exactly as it was.

A memory

Anyone who looks after the page — the owner or a trusted person — can Archive a memory from its "⋯". It leaves the page for everyone: the grid, the timeline, the calendar, the map, collections, search, the days that come round, the PDF and the downloaded copy all leave it out, a shared link to it stops opening, and it stops counting as a memory. Its pin is dropped.

Nothing is deleted and nobody is told — and the page shows nothing archived, to anyone. The managers find what they've put away under Settings → This page → Archived memories; Restore there (or on the memory itself) brings it back approved, where it was — it doesn't need approving again, and it isn't re-pinned. Archiving asks you first, since it leaves the page for everyone; you can also archive from the memory's editor.

Archiving is for memories that are on the page. A memory still waiting for review is answered from the review queue instead.

A page

Only the owner can archive a whole page, under Settings → Your page → Archive this page, just above delete. Archived, the page goes dark for everyone: contributors lose it from their dashboard and their searches, anyone with the link finds nothing, it leaves the list of lives shared with everyone, its Together pairing and its connections on other pages stop showing, and no reminders go out for its days.

The owner and the page's trusted people keep it under Archived at the foot of their dashboard. They can open it and read it as it was — but nothing on it can change while it's archived, not even by them. Restore page (the owner only) puts everything back; nothing about the page — its privacy, its listing, its people, its links — is changed by archiving.

An archived page still counts as yours: it's still in your account, still deleted with it, and still passes to your trusted people if your account closes.