Realtime · Flashcard

How should "is typing…" indicators be handled differently from messages?

easy

Answer

They are ephemeral: send them over the live connection only, never store or queue them, throttle them (one event every few seconds), and let them expire on their own. A lost typing event costs nothing; a stored one only wastes space and delivers stale state later.

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