jdev - 2020-09-18

the more i think about it the more i have the opinion that i don’t need scrollback MAM requests

for the own account, i simply download the whole archive at start or only on user request ✏

and for MUCs, there are small private MUCs, where you just download everything since last join

the only place where such a scrollback feature would maybe make sense, are bigger open mucs

lovetox, I mean I think it'

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lovetox, I think it's a question of priority

like, yeah, I think synchronizing the full MAM archive is the way to go

but synchronize the personal MAM archive before synchronizing any MUCs, then do small private MUCs, then do big MUCs

the first two types of synchronization are "blocking", and usually must complete before the app is usable

synchronizing the bigger MUCs can happen in a background job with low priority (i.e. don't slow the app down to do them)

blocking is always a bad idea

download in the background with low priority is easy said but really hard done

Ge0rG, I used quotes for a reason, right

I meant more from a UI/UX perspective more than anything else

eta: you should try to use XMPP on a typical German mobile "broadband" connection, while sitting on the regional train in the middle of nowhere

you would need to analyse the traffic, and then slowly start issuing requests and stop them when you exceed some traffic limit

very complex stuff

open a second XMPP connection ;)

or maybe XMPP over HTTP/2

the fun part is when the data you requested is so large that it exceeds your server's 0198 queue size and your session gets killed

and then you reconnect and request the same data again

lovetox, okay, fair enough

lovetox, the ordering thing is still valid though

or, hmm, maybe not

eta i would say the order does not matter, except when the user switches to a chat

then stop everything else, and do that one

lovetox, yeah, that's good

this is relatively easy

lovetox, by far the biggest issue I think currently though is notifications

on pretty much every client doing a MAM catchup results in loads of unread messages that you've actually read somewhere else

and it makes the unread list pretty useless as a result

This!

hard to solve problem

i dont like the idea to push a read-message-id to the server for any message i receive

lovetox, fwiw this is why I have to use dino instead of gajim even though I'd rather use gajim

because dino at least sorts the chats by last message

so it's not a total loss

... but Dino does the same thing if you haven't had it running for a while, or on first startup

with gajim there are like 100 chats all with 50 unreads and it's like, which one of those do I click on

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bazillions of notifications

Zash, sure but it's less of an issue because I don't rely on the unread state for anything

with gajim I need the unread state to tell me "hey click on this window, there's activity"

lovetox, I mean, you already send a smacks ack for every message you receive...

that does not mean read though

eta: yaxim will mark all conversations as read to which you have replied from any of your clients. ;)

also it wouldn't be every message you receive, just every message you receive while the chat is focused

also it will queue pending outging 0184 ACKs and only send one if there isn't one already in MAM

At least delaying notifications until the whole sync thing has completed would be an improvement

Ge0rG, it will and this is nice! however (a) that doesn't deal with situations where I didn't reply but still read it on another device, and (b) to clear the freaking unread marker I have to scroll *all the way* up

my hacky gajim fork at one point just unconditionally sent 0184 displayed markers for every single message

I also miss the "Mark all chats as read" option from Yaxim in all other clients :)

eta: that's unfortunate

eta: itym 333

and that was actually really pleasant, but obviously leaked everything

Zash, probably ;)

(and then hacks to dino/gajim/convos to unconditionally send such markers)

I feel like as solutions go though, that's not a terrible one

although OTOH it wouldn't work well if the other clients weren't online

so it's a hack

eta: There's one that's almost that. It could do something sensible wrt channel vs private group chats

Zash, is this the marker tracking one

I'm thinking of https://modules.prosody.im/mod_muc_markers.html

yeah, that

Zash, does that work for remote MUCs?

Moves chat markers into a separate store from MAM, so there's only one per user

doesn't look like it

Well it needs to run in the MUC itself, so probably no ✏

yeah okay, so that doesn't quite do what I want

You could probably do something like it locally but I imagine there'll be all sorts of fun"

eh, or we just go back to the idea of using pubsub or something

publish to a PEP node whenever you read a new message

Ask the code or Daniel. I think it does magic when it sees messages from yourself.

but do we have even a theoretical approach for the readstate sync in MUCs problem

i dont think its a solution that a MUC with 100 people, and every message to the MUC triggers 100 read markers sent to the MUC

that just doesnt scale

Hence server-side magic that records that, broadcasts it only to your own devices.

still not scaleable

Why?

because one message triggers hundreads

if 100 people chat, you have 10.000 messages

if you have 100 MUCs on your server

that just adds up exponentially

I said > broadcasts it only to your own devices.

So in this case there would be like 200 messages

what do you broadcast?

The read marker

i have to first tell the MUC that i read the message or?

Not broadcast, but rather only reflect it back to you (and your phone)

This is already how it works

point is i have to tell the muc

I'm describing a traffic optimization for larger groupchats

if 100 people tell the MUC, its 1 message triggers 100 to the server

i think the solution needs to happen on the user server

not on the MUC server

Doable.

If you reuse 333 syntax then the client doesn't even need to know the difference.

maybe use 333, but add a element, like <server-only>, so the server does not route it to the remote host for MUCs

But there's still 100 read notifications sent somewhere.

yeah Zash but distributed over 100 servers

as it should be

ok the server keeps then a list with tuples (jid, message-id)

does not help us much for mam

hm ..

ah no should work

and then use that as basis for offline message replay instead of MAM!

the only problem i see with this is, that the list of (jid, message-id) grows endless

maybe some cleanup can be made from time to time, like if no readmarker was sent for 6 months for a jid

but good thing is also its not terrible sensible data

Do you need to save more than one per JID?

if its lost, client gets a few notifications more

Doesn't this kind of thing only need to be a forward-moving pointer per JID?

And then the set of (jid, id) tuples wouldn't be much larger than your roster + MUC/MIX bookmarks ✏

Keeping such tuples a bit longer than the MAM retention period shouldn't be a problem

yeah but sometimes mam is forever

MUCs count grows over time

but yeah ok its solveable thing

If you do have infinite MAM then that's going to be the bigger problem anyways.

JID and message ids aren't that large compared to stanzas

i see it mainly from a, i have to query it at start perspective

if it can grow infinitly we need paging etc etc

more roundtrips etc

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wtf? ^

i really have to restrain myself to not click on the link

I didn't read all but I'm already puzzled.

But now I know Germany is a wiki which will soon be switched off.

its all in there the whole history of computers

commodore, dos, windows, linux, debian

flopy disk, opensuse, internet ..

Where will I live after switching off? Anyone offering me asylum? I like Sweden. ;)

hahahaha

that looks like someone testing a GPT-3 model (it generates convincing text, but the subject drifts almost as bad as a certain president; so arguably, it is realistic)

President Markov III?

maybe his nephew