Features
Benny Neugebauer edited this page Oct 12, 2016
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- Alice sets a 5 seconds timer (time is variable) and sends an ephemeral message to Bob
- After Alice sent the message, a timer starts on her side and blurres the message after 5 seconds
- Notice: The ephemeral message will not be send to Alice other clients (no syncing across sender's clients)
- When Bob receives the ephemeral message, his timer starts (5 seconds)
- After Bob's timer times out, he sends a "delete for everyone" message, do destroy the ephemeral message for him and for Alice
- Ephemeral messages are only supported in 1:1 conversations
- Ephemeral messages are not synced across the senders clients
- Ephemeral messages don't support extra features like "edit" or "like"
- When an ephemeral message gets deleted, it's completly deleted (absolutely no trace in the UI, no trash can, no sender name, etc.)
- Asset (
upload_files) - z.proto.ImageAsset (
upload_images) - z.proto.Knock (
send_knock) - Location (/)
- z.proto.Text (
send_message)
- Once a timer is set for an ephemeral message (ephemeral message mode), this timer is remembered for all following messages (until it's reset)
- If we receive ephemeral messages with timeouts different from the preset we specified, then we map those values to the closest value of our preset (improves compatiblity with 3rd-party clients without breaking our UX)
- http://nicomiceli.com/youtube-embed-tracking-google-analytics/
- https://github.com/witstep/response-monitor.js
| Type | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| boolean | false | Not an ephemeral message |
| boolean | true | Ephemeral message which timed out |
| string | Long.js | Ephemeral message, where the timeout hasn't been started (Long.js format) |
| number | Timestamp | Ephemeral message, where the timeout is running (absolute time when message expires) |