Add direct messages between friends after the social MVP
- Lenguaje dominante
- JavaScript
- Estrellas
- 30
- Forks
- 9
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Descripción
## Goal
Let accepted friends coordinate outside a room after the friendship, blocking, notification, retention, and abuse controls have proven stable.
## Required contract before implementation
- Only accepted friends may start or continue a conversation.
- Blocking immediately prevents new delivery and hides actionable contact paths.
- Define retention, deletion, export, and account-removal behavior before storing messages.
- Add reporting/moderation and rate limits before broad enablement.
- Treat message content as sensitive: do not put it in analytics, routine logs, notification previews, or PostgreSQL metrics.
- Reconnect and multi-device delivery must reconcile from durable paginated history; Socket.IO is delivery, not the source of truth.
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Complete a threat/privacy review covering minors, harassment, impersonation, spam, and moderation access.
- [ ] Define conversation/message schemas, cursor pagination, delivery/read semantics, and retention.
- [ ] Add authenticated APIs and realtime delivery with per-message authorization and idempotency.
- [ ] Add block/report/delete flows before enabling message composition.
- [ ] Add limits for message size, frequency, links, and duplicate/replayed sends.
- [ ] Add tests for unfriending/blocking races, ID tampering, reconnect, multiple tabs, retention, deletion, and rate limits.
- [ ] Roll out behind a separate feature flag with privacy-safe reliability metrics.
## Dependencies
- #75
- #105
- #188
## Non-goals
- Group chat.
- File/image uploads.
- End-to-end encryption claims without a separately reviewed design.
- Shipping as part of the Friend System MVP.
Guía de contribución
Línea de trabajo
Comienza revisando las dependencias #75, #105 y #188 y, después, completa la revisión requerida de amenazas y privacidad antes de la implementación. Se considerará que está hecho cuando se hayan abordado los esquemas, las APIs, los flujos de moderación y seguridad, las pruebas y el despliegue controlado mediante feature flags indicados; la composición de mensajes debe permanecer deshabilitada hasta que las salvaguardas estén implementadas.
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Evaluación
- Stack tecnológico
- javascript, mongodb, nodejs, react
- Área
- api, backend, security
- Tipo de issue
- Nueva funcionalidad
- Dificultad
- 5/5
- Tiempo estimado
- Más de una semana
- Estado de actividad
- Tranquilo
- Claridad
- Bastante claro
- Aptitud para principiantes
- 25/100