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by ninkendo 450 days ago
> Getting more elaborate emoji tapbacks doesn't make up for fundamental instability and poor syncing behavior. C'mon!

Oh but you forgot about the “catch up” button they added 2 releases ago that takes you to the last unread message! …

… but only if said last message is within the N most recent messages, in the messages which are already “fetched” from local storage. If it’s more unread messages than that, the button is nowhere to be found.

Like they said “ok we can implement a catch up button but it’ll be hard to solve due to how we do paging.” “Ok we just won’t put the button on screen if we have to page then. Save the hard problem for the next release.” Then they just forgot about it.