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<p>Yes messages sent by a deleted user are still visible to the recipient at the moment.</p>
<p>I'm in two minds about it - hiding them might be confusing if messages you had received suddenly vanished because the sender chose to delete their account and a user-user message can be viewed as a kind of joint property which is why we have two separate delete flags for sender and recipient.</p>

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