Mentions appear randomly late in the dedicated mentions screen

[mrvdb]

When I get mentioned sometimes the notifier on top doesn't show an indicator until much, much later in time.
I've tried to find a pattern, but failed. Sometimes it's after a minute but I have seen it take as long as 4 to 6 hours.

What is the logic here so I can perform a test and give some useful analysis for the issue?

[miguelfreitas]

The logic is here:

https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-html/blob/master/js/twister_newmsgs.js#L22

I have seen problems too. I guess there is something buggy here.

The idea for testing if the (not yet known) mention time is > (lastmentiontime - 1 hour) is to prevent very old mentions which have already been discarded (thus not "known" anymore) from reappearing as "new". But we might just relax on this test and see what happens.

[miguelfreitas]

Of course the other possibility is that the sender may have failed to send/store the mention to the DHT network. In that case, his twisterd will be retrying it every hour.

[mrvdb]

In the latter case, it also won't appear in the normal timeline, correct? It does however, so I think the message as such has been propagating properly.

[miguelfreitas]

Not really. Timeline propagation uses "bittorrent", mentions use DHT/UDP.

[mrvdb]

Ah, learn something new every day :-)

[miguelfreitas]

:-) check this out http://twister.net.co/?attachment_id=355
of course i'm biased but i hope it will be an interesting read!

[mrvdb]

👍 (was on my reading list already ;-) )

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

asking about status of this issue

(after getting link to here on my current problem:
http://skilledtests.com/wiki/Twister_experience#2015-07-31 )

[miguelfreitas]

I think it is worth noting somethings that have changed since this issue was created:

1. the logic i've mentioned in Jun 12, 2014 is different now, which should fix some issues.
2. twisterd now takes care of detecting your own mentions from the people you follow. this has some nice advantages: (a) faster mentioning update, doesn't have to go through DHT put/get and (b) in case someone is spamming you with thousands of mentions, you still get the mentioning from your friends. in other words: one may denial-of-service the "feature" of receiving mentions from unknown sources but not from the people you know.

ps: your observations from twister experiences are always very interesting. we should somehow link those (or reorganize into) our own wiki http://wiki.twister.net.co/w/start for documentation purposes.