local peers not updating

i was just co-working with @mixmix, who is no longer here but his identity still shows up as a local peer. earlier, when he already had patchwork open and i came online, i didn't show up as a local peer on his patchwork although he did on mine.

Yeah this is pretty shoddy right now. Currently it will display the local peer (once discovered) until you restart.

@dominic any ideas about reliable detection of local peers (and knowing when they're no longer around)?

i thought i remember this working on Patchwork classic, although maybe that wasn't the case.

doing some code archeology i see some peer.connected = false, which i see is now represented as peer.state = undefined.

keen to do some testing at Art~Hack tomorrow to test these code paths and see if we can get reliable connection and disconnection events.

Okay this should be working really well now!

And syncing to peers seems to work fairly well too. If you don't follow them it may take a minute or two, but eventually happens.

Closing :boom: