Support for seeing which move number chat messages were sent during about lila HOT 10 OPEN

I think it sounds like a great idea. We could optionally attach state objects to every chat message that can reference a round and ply. And they could link to the board state url. This would also be useful for chats on broadcasts and tournaments.

If we run into clutter, I'd happily trade the "flair" area for this badge.

Tooltip would be cool too, but keep mobile in mind.

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Similar to #1604, and the no of games daily have only increased since then. So as schlawg mentioned, most probably this wont be merged even if someone implemented it.

That's a fair point, I understand the cost of storing a lot more data, but if you for example implemented the timestamp as just a "special string" prepended to each message (even as simple as {7} for ply number 7, that's only a few extra bytes per message. This surely is fine, in the same way that it would be fine if everyone just used a few extra letters when writing their messages.

Of course this runs into backwards compatibility problems, which isn't trivial to work around.

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By the way, the same principle should be applied for the chat messages saying that someone offered a draw, etc.

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Yep good point with mobile not seeing tooltips...

I will start having a look into implementing this later today then, I assume I'll have to change both the UI code as well as some websockets code so that the new metadata can be saved in the database.

When you mention that each message could link to the board state url, I guess you mean someone can click the message (or the badge next to the message) and be taken to a new page showing how the game was at that time/show that move in the current game window? That seems like a nice idea.

Thanks for the feedback!

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So I was thinking about chats on broadcasts there. But for correspondence, clicking a badge could take you to analysis view at the given ply or just rewind the game view to that point. It doesn't exist yet so who's to say?

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Back to reality though - as it becomes more complex, the odds of getting something like this merged become vanishingly small.

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Yeah that makes sense, it's hard to know where the tradeoff between code simplicity and nice features lies.
That said, I'm now realising this would also have to support chat messages made on game analysis pages, but that shouldn't be very different anyway.

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Similar to #1604, and the no of games daily have only increased since then. So as schlawg mentioned, most probably this wont be merged even if someone implemented it.

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Something else I'm realising is that moves in games can be annotated with messages. So, these annotations are of course linked to a certain move, so I see no reason that chat messages can't be reimplemented in a similar way.

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You could add a clock like icon 🕑 somewhere in the chat. When you click on it you see the "timestamps" or "movestamps", I guess, just like the Developer Tool setting in Chrome. That would solve the issue of mobile, too.

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