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0 pointskiitos1y ago0 comments

> How far back should you be able to amend history?

If user U1 sends a message M1 at time T1, then U1 must be able to modify/delete that message M1, in some reasonable sense, at any conceivable time from T1 forwards.

Any protocol that doesn't support some reasonable form of message modification/deletion in this sense, is a toy protocol, and will never be widely adopted.

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shawnz1y ago

I'm not talking about message editing but rather posting new messages with a backdated time.

kiitosOP1y ago

I suppose every message has a few timestamps, including

- The timestamp that the user specified as part of the message

- The timestamp of the server that the user submitted the message to, directly

- The timestamp of the server that first received that message

- Any additional timestamp(s) of additional server(s) that received that message

The user can I guess backdate a time, but that would apply only to the first thing, and none of the others?

shawnz1y ago

The first one is the only one that can accurately describe where the user intended for the message to land in the conversation. All the others are subject to network delays, so if you order messages by anything other than the first one, you are going to get a bad experience if you try to participate in a busy conversation with a poor connection.

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0 pointskiitos1y ago0 comments

> How far back should you be able to amend history?

If user U1 sends a message M1 at time T1, then U1 must be able to modify/delete that message M1, in some reasonable sense, at any conceivable time from T1 forwards.

Any protocol that doesn't support some reasonable form of message modification/deletion in this sense, is a toy protocol, and will never be widely adopted.

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shawnz1y ago

I'm not talking about message editing but rather posting new messages with a backdated time.

kiitosOP1y ago

I suppose every message has a few timestamps, including

- The timestamp that the user specified as part of the message

- The timestamp of the server that the user submitted the message to, directly

- The timestamp of the server that first received that message

- Any additional timestamp(s) of additional server(s) that received that message

The user can I guess backdate a time, but that would apply only to the first thing, and none of the others?

shawnz1y ago

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