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Ncurses based XMPP client
https://profanity-im.github.io/
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older messages not loading. #1945

Closed ShroomiePerson closed 10 months ago

ShroomiePerson commented 11 months ago

i've enabled chat history/logging, and whenever i enter a chat i've started, it displays at the top that profanity is Loading older messages... but nothing ever loads.

Expected Behavior

i expect my previous messages to show up after some time, but they never do.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

  1. enable /logging chat or /history
  2. send some messages

Context

i just want to view my chat history as it's inconvenient to have to view it from a separate client.

Environment

`profanity -v

Profanity, version 0.14.0 Copyright (C) 2012 - 2019 James Booth boothj5web@gmail.com. Copyright (C) 2019 - 2023 Michael Vetter jubalh@iodoru.org. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Build information: XMPP library: libstrophe Desktop notification support: Enabled OTR support: Enabled (libotr 4.1.1) PGP support: Enabled (libgpgme 1.23.2) OMEMO support: Enabled C plugins: Enabled Python plugins: Disabled GTK icons/clipboard: Disabled GDK Pixbuf: Disabled`

i use a 2019 intel iMac running Mac OSX 14.2 and use the terminal emulator iTerm2. while i am better than the majority of the US population at working with Unix-like operating systems, i am still not extremely good at it, and i don't know what glib is.

ShroomiePerson commented 11 months ago
ProfanExample

forgot to add a photo, sorry.

jubalh commented 11 months ago

Did you set /mam on?

Weird that it prints Loading older messages... without doing anything. Even if MAM is off it should do something, we might have to investigate.

ShroomiePerson commented 11 months ago

/mam is on.

ShroomiePerson commented 11 months ago

update: according to the console-thing in tab one, my server doesn't support MAM. ig i'll bring this up with them then.

jubalh commented 11 months ago

my server doesn't support MAM

So we have the fault why you dont see your old messages. But still Profanity shouldn't just print Loading older messages... and that's it. It should 1) not try to load MAM (probably its doing that) 2) load from SQL DB what's there and then stop this action.

sjaeckel commented 11 months ago

I recently looked into this and the mechanism that determines whether MAM is supported, resp. whether this error message should be printed, is not correct. I'll create a write-up when I have the time, but for now we should treat MAM as "works if the stars align" a.k.a "incomplete". This error message can be ignored in most of the cases, especially when it's printed at profanity start-up time.

FTR: #1944 was also incomplete. The PR doesn't make the situation worse, but it also didn't improve it.

sjaeckel commented 11 months ago

As a work-around you can close that window and once the connection setup is finished you can re-open it again and then 1-on-1 MAM should work, if it's supported by the server.

This "connection setup" should take around 30-60 seconds, sometimes also longer, depending on various things like how many MUCs you auto-join and others.

ShroomiePerson commented 10 months ago

hey it's just a server issue, i moved somewhere else and everything's good now.