Message order being presented incorrectly #118

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opened 2025-10-14 15:39:42 -06:00 by navan · 0 comments

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2025-10-14 15:39:42 -06:00

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Originally created by @snailwraith on 5/16/2025

0.0.11-alpha.1 (5f927ce)

I noticed that a user's newly sent messages were not appearing at the bottom of the chatroom as expected but instead were displayed above messages that were clearly older than their own. I notified the user of this and they noted that their home server had a clock drift of approximately -3 minutes.

While the client should be aware of time of course, the problem is that it prioritizes it for the ordering of messages. The issue was observed by multiple iamb users in the iamb discussion room, and confirmed to not be an issue in other clients.

Naturally the symptom went away after the user in question fixed their home server's clock.

*Originally created by @snailwraith on 5/16/2025* 0.0.11-alpha.1 (5f927ce) I noticed that a user's newly sent messages were not appearing at the bottom of the chatroom as expected but instead were displayed above messages that were clearly older than their own. I notified the user of this and they noted that their home server had a clock drift of approximately -3 minutes. While the client should be aware of time of course, the problem is that it prioritizes it for the ordering of messages. The issue was observed by multiple iamb users in the iamb discussion room, and confirmed to not be an issue in other clients. Naturally the symptom went away after the user in question fixed their home server's clock.