21 Apr
2025
21 Apr
'25
9:01 a.m.
XEP-0444 specifies it in the business rules, although its not very strict, basically says
you should use the original id but everyone should also support everything else.
XEP-0308 does not overwrite the original message id, the client just replaces the payload
of the message.
From XEP-308
If the same message is to be corrected several times,
the id of the original message is used in each case (e.g. If a message of id 1 is
corrected by a message of id 2, a subsequent correction should correct 1, not 2).
So all corrections point to the original message.
I would argue the case if the corrections XEP itself always references the original
message, all other XEPs should do aswell.
Regards
Philipp
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025, at 16:41, Tedd Sterr wrote:
Additionally, XEP-0444 (Message Reactions), and pretty
much anywhere an ID will ever be used to reference another message.
The issue stems from XEP-0308 replacing/overwriting the message ID, and consequently all
references already using the previous message ID are left pointing to a non-existent
message.
Amongst other things, this provides a way to avoid moderation — send an offensive
message, it gets moderated, just LMC the message and it's no longer moderated.
So, while it feels 'wrong' from a purist view, NOT replacing the message ID would
be the better option - old and new references will then all point to the same message.
Otherwise, presumably, clients (and servers?) will be required to track all past message
IDs for each corrected message.