Been running a server for me and a few friends over the past month or so, this mod was enabled when we started playing, for some reason today no one could join the server, they would get desynced before they loaded in, after disabling mods and re enabling one by one, this is the only mod that causes the desync issue.

I didn't try running it on its own so it could be a mod incompatibility, here's my modlist in case someone else wants to test

base
elevated rails
quality
space age
aai containers
auto deconstruct
automatic train painter
bottleneck lite
cleaned concrete
disco science
even distribution
flib
fluid wagon color mask
module inserter simplified
nixie tubes
rate calculator
roboport charging pads count quality
stats gui
textplates
vehicle snap
warehousing
waterfill

as far as i can tell from a surface level nothing that would conflict with honk, but i dont feel like looking too far into it

If it still happens when you enable Honk, can you share the save file and desync report? Factorio-current.log from clients and server would also be useful since it logs the Honk settings.

Also, do you know if any of the mod settings were changed?

After disabling it earlier today i left the server running without it. just now i tried reenabling it to test and now it is not desyncing. afaik nothing major changed, my best guess is it had something to do with the state of the factory? When I was personally debugging i looked through the log and couldnt find anything blatantly saying honk was the issue, but i may have missed something

Heres a (totally not sus) link to the desync reports if you still wish to look at them, they seem to have everything you asked for besides the server log, which has since been overwritten
https://gofile.me/7e9Cl/LlhPMJH58

Edit: link fixed

and to clarify this was happening to me while connecting to the server from the same device that was hosting it (using localhost), as well as a client on a different network

The link is broken now.

sorry about that, the link is to my nas and its os updated last night which i guess broke the link. heres an updated one
https://gofile.me/7e9Cl/LlhPMJH58

That's a very nice save, but I can't get it to desync for me (even when I loaded with the exact same settings). As a mere modder I can't make any sense from the desync report either. If it happens again, there are some console commands to run to get more precise information.