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Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1 by fosk on Friday June 09, 2017 @12:44PM (#14522560)
> sometimes flips the order of a few messages, so that if you send two messages, the first one appears below the second one.

Turns out eventual consistency doesn't work well with chat apps.

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Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1 by Dylan16807 on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:01PM (#14522670)
The eventual consistency part of skype doesn't really cause problems. But how it screws up simple timestamping is quite another question.
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Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1 by tracker1 on Friday June 09, 2017 @02:50PM (#14523507)
The timestamp probably isn't to the MS, and/or there may be some drift on whichever server recorded the incoming message... it should be set to ms on the client, and only in the case of > 2s drift be adjusted on the server.
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Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1 by mino on Friday June 09, 2017 @12:50PM (#14522596)
Your comment made me laugh, but this issue is very sad. How can a chat app that constantly flips messages in transit could pass any QI, for whatever low bar we set?
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