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1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2018 18:25:27 EST Annah
   Actually, a tool for visualising when a post from a given node is received by given other nodes would be really useful.  I can probably integrate that into the admin tools of postActiv.  it would certainly help illustrate the federation problems encountered by bad networking or bad routing.  The rabbit hole goes pretty deep when you're trying to solve those kinds of problems and understanding is part one.  Most people either don't understand, or they don't want to admit its because they're on a network with weak peering so they blame the software.
   1. mike (mike@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 22:42:45 EST mike

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      Missed this first time through. Hubzilla has delivery reports. We needed this in the days when Diaspora dropped 1/3 of their messages into thin air to prove that it wasn't our bug and the post/comment was actually accepted successfully by the Diaspora side - before vanishing.
      
      The reports also give you a hint whether or not your note was blocked, duplicated, delivered, stuck in the queue, or encountered some other error by a Hubzilla receiver. For other projects we can only tell you whether it's queued or accepted - at which point it's probably their fault. I don't know how we ever got by without it. You can tell an admin to read their logs, but you can't blame a casual user for wondering WTF? when their post/comment disappears or never arrives and with zero accountability. (I'm looking at *you* Mastodon).