A connected Windows client would randomly snap from its joined channel
back to Lobby. Root cause was a state-sync inconsistency, not a drop:
the server delivered self-initiated state changes (channel join/leave,
stream announce/stop) only as a private *Result to the actor and
broadcast the authoritative UserEvent::UPDATED to everyone else. The
core never applied the result to its SessionModel, so vc_list_users()
kept self in the old channel; the Windows HandleUserUpdated rebuilds
_currentChannelId from vc_list_users() on any user's UPDATED event, so
the next unrelated event surfaced the stale self-channel.
Fix, per the response-vs-broadcast contract now documented in
docs/protocol.md §6: the *Result is pure ack/correlation/actor-private
payload; the resulting state change is broadcast to every client
INCLUDING the actor, and clients apply it to their local model rather
than re-deriving own state from a *Result.
- server: join/leave/stream announce+stop broadcast with exclude=0
- server: text fan-out includes the sender (channel + private echo)
- core: response handlers no longer mutate session_model_
- windows: drop optimistic text echo; render own message via the relay
- docs/protocol.md §6: document the response-vs-broadcast contract
Registry-level admin broadcasts (move/mute/kick/channel CRUD) already
used exclude=0 and were correct. ctest build/m1-dev 18/18 green;
VoiceCat.App builds 0 warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
