Add Scrollback for joining users.
zorchenhimer opened this issue · comments
Add a scrollback with the last N messages in chat to send to joining users. The number of messages should be configurable.
Yep, seems to be an good idea.
Did you already though of a solution to keep the last N messages ?
- Maybe an in ram rolling stack ?
if i understand correctly a chat message is defined here:
Line 86 in 9ba472b
Therefore it should be rather easy to implement a rolling stack with a fixed length to enable scrollback.
I bet the 'bigest' problem isn't the stack but handling the new chat user and send just to him the stack content.
Nah, that should be pretty straight forward. A bunch of (hidden) messages are already sent to the client during the join process. Sending the scrollback would just happen after all that. I suppose it could be a new hidden message type so it could be formatted differently or something (eg, greyed out), but that's not exactly necessary.