Make wording for persistence options more clear in docs

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Mike Wilson
2025-10-16 15:57:34 -04:00
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persistent_by_default
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If this option is set to `true`, all rooms will be persistent by default:
If this option is set to "true", all rooms will be persistent by default:
the value of the “persistent” option in the global configuration of each
user will be “true”, but the value of each individual room will still
default to false. This means that a user just needs to change the global
“persistent” configuration option to false in order to override this.
default to "false". This means that a user just needs to change their global
“persistent” configuration option to "false" in order to override this
and be able to set rooms to not persistent.
If it is set to false (the default value), all rooms are not persistent by
If this option is set to "false" (the default value), all rooms are not persistent by
default.
Each room can be configured individually by each user, to override this
default value. See :ref:`Ad-hoc commands`.
realname_customization
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the database.
- **Max history length**: The maximum number of lines in the history that
the server is allowed to send when joining a channel.
- **Persistent**: Overrides the value specified in each individual
channel. If this option is set to true, all channels are persistent,
whether or not their specific value is true or false. This option is true
by default for everyone if the `persistent_by_default` configuration
option is true, otherwise it’s false. See below for more details on what a
persistent channel is.
- **Persistent**: If this option is set to true, the persistence setting
specified on each individual channel is ignored and all channels are persistent.
If this option is set to false, the persistence setting specified on each
individual channel is respected.
This option defaults to the value of :ref:`persistent_by_default`, which itself
defaults to false.
See below for more details on what a persistent channel is.
On a server JID
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