Revision as of 05:35, 10 December 2016

File:Titans-icon.png Planetary Annihilation Community Chat Implementation

Highlights of the implementation are:

scalable multi-user chat rooms with no preset room limit
single web socket connection to Community Chat server based on http://socket.io/
connects and reconnects automatically

Changes from previous PA Chat implementation:

lightweight messages based on single observable allowing for more room history
lightweight room users with single wrapped observable allowing for more room users and faster sorting via unwrapped properties
room users no longer create full heavy CONTACT users with many observables ie the user tag map will not grow for every user who joins room

Default uberbar implementation is still long polling XMPP over BOSH to PlayFab servers for the following:

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 * scalable multi-user chat rooms with no preset room limit
-* single web socket connection to Community Chat server
+* single web socket connection to Community Chat server based on http://socket.io/
 * connects and reconnects automatically
-Default uberbar implementation is still long polling XMPP over BOSH using PlayFab server for the following:
+Changes from previous PA Chat implementation:
+* lightweight messages based on single observable allowing for more room history
+* lightweight room users with single wrapped observable allowing for more room users and faster sorting via unwrapped properties
+* room users no longer create full heavy CONTACT users with many observables ie the user tag map will not grow for every user who joins room
+Default uberbar implementation is still long polling XMPP over BOSH to PlayFab servers for the following:
 * friends list presence