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Expiry

Anonymous drops live 30 days, then stay offline but privately claimable for 30 more; free-account drops live 90 days, subscriber drops live forever, and ?ttl= overrides either direction within plan limits. This page is what “expired” actually means mechanically.

Where the deadline lives

Every expiring drop carries its deadline as object metadata, and the deploy response’s expires_at echoes it (null means never). While a drop is live, the deadline is also exposed on every response via the x-drop-expires header:

curl -I https://vast-juice-c2dse.shipped.run/
HTTP/2 200
content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8
cache-control: public, max-age=60
x-drop-expires: 2026-06-19T14:00:00.000Z

Past the deadline

At the deadline every expiring drop answers 410 Gone. An anonymous drop remains privately claimable for 30 days: whoever holds its spc_… claim token can recover it (dashboard → Drops → claim, POST /drops/<slug>/claim, or the claim_drop MCP tool) into a 90-day free-account lifetime. Owned files are retained for 90 days, and the owner can restore from the dashboard or via POST /drops/<slug>/restore: free accounts can restore during the first 30 days past expiry and get a new 90-day lifetime; subscribers can restore through day 90 and remove expiry. Past those windows, the files are gone for good. The endpoints behind all of this live in Managing drops.

Warning emails

Signed-in accounts get one email about 48 hours before an owned drop expires, with its expiry time and restore options — redeploy, claim or restore starts a fresh drop lifetime and a fresh warning. Toggle it under dashboard → Settings → Drop-expiry reminders (on by default). Anonymous drops can’t be warned (there’s no address to reach), and drops without an expiry never trigger one.

Cleanup

A sweep runs every five minutes, querying the drop index for entries past their window — 30 days of private recovery for anonymous drops, 90 days of retention for owned ones — and deleting their files in batches, no bucket scans. Every expired drop serves 410 from the deadline on; only a valid claim or restore can bring it back.

Keeping things alive

Claiming an anonymous drop gives it a 90-day free-account lifetime — that works before the deadline and during the 30-day private recovery window. Owned drops that already expired can be restored from the dashboard within the retention window. Beyond that there’s no “extend” call — redeploy with a fresh ?ttl= instead. Claiming extends a lifetime; it does not make a page permanent — removing expiry entirely is a paid named-drop feature. Subscribers redeploying a named drop keep the same URL while resetting content and lifetime in one shot.