> Lemme tell you a secret about global event ordering in chat rooms: nobody cares. These aren’t bank transactions. If two users get the same two messages in opp

> Lemme tell you a secret about global event ordering in chat rooms: nobody cares. These aren’t bank transactions. If two users get the same two messages in opposite order from each other then it’s fine, even in a formal setting like a university talk or a work chatroom, and it can be fixed by the client as soon as the authoritative server decides on what ordering is correct. Well, it depends on the level of inconsistency. Ironically, I'm in a bridged Tg-to-Matrix chat room on the Matrix side and regularly get dozens of messages in a shuffled order. Even though the messages have timestamps, it's very confusing. I tend to just ignore this room. So much for ordering guarantees.