Re:Show HN: Chitchatter – P2P chat app that is serverless, d...
by jckahn on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @06:15PM
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Thanks for the feedback! Chitchatter uses https://www.metered.ca/tools/openrelay/ for relaying communication when P2P connections can't be established. So, chatting should "just work" for users right now. I don't know if the current connection type (P2P or relayed) can be determined by JavaScript. If not, it seems that allowing the user to disable relaying servers might be the safest option (at the expense of the app not actually working).
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Re:Show HN: Chitchatter – P2P chat app that is serverless, d...
by jckahn on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:03AM
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Just to follow up here, it turns out that there may be a way to detect if a peer connection is direct or relayed: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53138581
I'll try to surface this information to the user!