Chat is not that complex as other distributed applications you probably don't need Raft.Both Paxos and Raft are very complex algorithms to implement. A CRDT ba

Chat is not that complex as other distributed applications you probably don't need Raft.Both Paxos and Raft are very complex algorithms to implement. A CRDT based append only implementation is probably more than enough?. Data is never modified only added/removed in typical chat workflows. Reading discourd engineering blog over the years it looks like scaling the pub/sub for the consumers in large channels is lot harder than DB/store itself being distributed.