I'm not going to lie: I really would adore seeing a new generation of the IRC protocol. Maybe I'm weird. Actually, I know I'm weird. But I have more positive and longer-lasting memories of time spent on IRC even into the 2000's than any other chat program.
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But in terms of actual protocol revisions: As I see it, something like the ability to edit sent messages is something that could be done without breaking the existing API contract.
Again, a naïve take, but it should be possible for a packet to specify an edit to a message using a hash of the initial message - which has been indelibly sent - and the delta to apply over it.
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While this does mean that the original message is still there in the history, and it would be up to clients to opt in and implement support for such packets, is there any practical difference from Discord, Slack, Telegram or others showing the new message with an "(edited)" note?
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If anything, such functionality being opt-in would be *more* transparent, not less, than other popular protocols. You know that the message was edited, but you don't know what it said after the fact. Indelibly knowing the original content encourages accountability.
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