Message ordering

[QZAiXH]

Hi, I'm a front end noob trying to implement an ipfs based go chat app myself. The problem I'm currently having is if to ensure the sequentiality of the messages. May I ask how you solved this problem in your application?

[TheDiscordian]

Hello @QZAiXH ! IIRC messages can be out of order. This system is more of a prototype, I do plan on one day working on something a bit more robust but, this isn't it!

DiscoChat simply ensures messages aren't duplicates, and they're not super old.

It will also blindly trust other peers and ask for a backlog: https://github.com/TheDiscordian/disco-chat/blob/master/ui/backlog.js

They could lie about what the backlog is of course.

Sorry for the delay, please let me know if you have any more questions.