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I wonder if this design would allow group chat as well, not just p2p?
by imrehg 11y ago
I wonder if this design would allow group chat as well, not just p2p?
- jacquesm 11y agoI can see a fairly simple extension assuming a friend-of-a-friend style forwarding. It would be that much slower than one-on-one and participants have to remain online for the chat not to experience splits. As soon as the thing needs to work with participants joining/leaving at will you'd need some kind of supernode or hidden server and that's a vulnerability.
- bentpins 11y agoDistributed databases have solved both the problem of splits, and requiring a fixed master server. MongoDB for example has a master node, but if this leaves the other nodes will elect a new one. All nodes accept queries and will sync up over time. http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/replica-sets/ http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/replica-sets/