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feat: Group and broadcast channel descriptions#7829

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fix #7766

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  • Descriptions are only sent with member additions, when the description is changed, and when promoting a previously-unpromoted group, in order not to waste bandwith.
  • Descriptions are not loaded everytime a chat object is loaded, because they are only needed for the profile. Instead, they are in their own table, and can be loaded with their own JsonRPC call.

@Hocuri Hocuri force-pushed the hoc/chat-descriptions branch from 0480be1 to 01df608 Compare February 5, 2026 14:17
@Hocuri Hocuri changed the title [WIP] Group and broadcast channel descriptions [WIP] feat: Group and broadcast channel descriptions Feb 5, 2026
@Hocuri Hocuri force-pushed the hoc/chat-descriptions branch 2 times, most recently from 1e21677 to a2ba0e4 Compare February 6, 2026 13:39
@Hocuri Hocuri changed the title [WIP] feat: Group and broadcast channel descriptions feat: Group and broadcast channel descriptions Feb 6, 2026
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Hang on, there is a bug that the group description isn't sent with the first message into an unpromoted group
Edit: I fixed this

Hocuri added 17 commits February 9, 2026 19:57
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[WIP] Group and broadcast channel descriptions
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Resolve some TODOs
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perf: Don't load the description every time a chat is loaded
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Add test and fix things
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Don't send the group description in every message
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Move get_chat_description() to a free function for consistency with s…
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Remove TODO
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Remove accidentally-added whitespace
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Some more fixes. Unfortunately, tests don't pass :/
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Fix timestamp problem
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The problem was inconsistent timestamp smearing:
Alice sent description updates with unsmeared timestamps.
This led Bob to reject description updates as "older" than his current group state.
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fix: Use correct stock string
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fix: Make GroupDescriptionTimestamp more symmetrical to GroupNameTime…
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Rename apply_chat_name_and_avatar_changes -> apply_chat_name_avatar_a…
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fix: Send description when promoting a group
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Hocuri commented Feb 9, 2026

@adbenitez @nicodh if you were testing this already with a live account, then you will need to delete it, and restore from a backup or another device, because I did a rebase, changing the migration.

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nicodh commented Feb 9, 2026

@adbenitez @nicodh if you were testing this already with a live account, then you will need to delete it, and restore from a backup or another device, because I did a rebase, changing the migration.

I'm not sure - so if there is a table chats_descriptions the migration was already applied and the accounts needs to be restored, correct?

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Hocuri commented Feb 9, 2026

I'm not sure - so if there is a table chats_descriptions the migration was already applied and the accounts needs to be restored, correct?

Yes.

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