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Problem

Opening a thread from a search result on mobile lands far from the matching message. Search shows the right snippet, but on a long thread the message is off screen, so the jump looks like it did nothing.

Reproduce: on iOS, open a long thread's search result whose message is well above the end, from the Home search or the palette. The feed stops well away from the message. On a thread of about 170 rows I measured the list stopping about 1,100 px past the target.

Change

These are three causes of the same failure, in the landing in ThreadFeed:

  • Estimated rows. The list scrolled once, using estimated heights for rows it had never rendered. Measuring those rows moved the target (14,389 to 13,563 in the case above) while the list held the visible content still, so nothing corrected the landing. settleThreadFeedJump now lands again until the target stops moving, with a small cap. It stops as soon as the user drags or a send resets following.
  • Tall messages. viewPosition: 0.2 is a fraction of the space left after the row, so a message taller than the screen opened past its first lines. The row top now aligns under the header with a fixed viewOffset.
  • End follow. The jump's own scroll events still reported the end it was leaving, which turned end follow back on after the landing. Those events are now ignored until the landing finishes.

Scope and approval

No issue or discussion. This is a focused fix for an obvious bug in the existing jump from #24343: the feature's stated behavior is to open the thread at that message, and it did not. It changes no product behavior beyond that. The changes all sit in the one landing path, and I found no existing issue or PR for it.

Rows listed for a title match still open at the end. That matches web and I left it alone.

Verification

iOS Simulator (iOS 27.0), development client, isolated dev server, a long thread rewritten to demo text. Same search for zebrafinch and same tap on both sides. The header is cropped out.

Before After
The feed opens in a later message, the search word is not on screen The feed opens with the matching message at the top

Also checked on the simulator, before the review fixes below:

  • A message inside a folded run unfolds and lands at the top of the screen.
  • A long message from the oldest history (row 3, 2,195 px tall, loaded through onLoadThrough) opens at its first lines. Before the viewOffset change it opened about 360 px into the message.

vp test run apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-feed-live-follow.test.ts apps/mobile/src/features/threads/threadMessageJump.test.ts: 34 passed, including new cases for re-landing, an unknown position, the cap and cancelling. tsc --noEmit passes for apps/mobile.

Not checked:

  • Android, and physical devices.
  • Dragging during a landing on a device. The second commit, from a code review, covers that and a jump cut short, and has no simulator pass of its own.
  • Whether end follow stays off during a live turn. I confirmed the logged follow state on an idle thread only.
  • Tapping "scroll to end" during a landing does not cancel it. A landing takes a few frames, so I left that.

A long message still lands at its start, so a word far down it can stay off screen. Word-level positioning would be a separate change.

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nabettu and others added 2 commits November 2, 2026 13:23
A search result opened the thread far from the message. The list scrolled
once on estimated row sizes, and measuring the rows there moved the target
while the list held the content still. A fractional viewPosition also pushed
the start of tall messages off screen, and the jump's own scroll events
turned end follow back on.

Land until the target stops moving, align the row top with a fixed offset,
and keep follow off until the landing is done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A drag that finished between landings went unnoticed, so the next landing
pulled the user back. A jump cut short also left end follow blocked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at 2e8e357

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Mobile search-result navigation now repeatedly settles on the matching message and aligns its first lines below the header. The change is limited to transient scrolling behavior, with bounded retries and interruption handling.

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ThreadFeed message jumps now align target rows to the top using header and anchor offsets, then repeat landing up to six times until the measured position stabilizes. Dragging overrides a pending jump. Scrolling to the feed end finishes a pending jump. Tests cover changing and unavailable positions, non-settling targets, and cancellation.

Changes: Thread feed jump landing

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Bounded jump settling
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-feed-scroll-position.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-feed-scroll-position.test.ts
settleThreadFeedJump retries landing up to six times. It stops when consecutive defined positions differ by at most one or when cancellation is detected. Tests cover changing and unavailable positions, non-settling targets, and cancellation.
ThreadFeed jump positioning
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx
ThreadFeed scrolls a valid target to the top using header and anchor offsets, waits four animation frames, and delegates settling to the helper. Dragging overrides the pending jump. Scrolling to the feed end finishes a pending jump.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 48c48

Search results now land on the matching message, and tapping scroll-to-end during a landing no longer returns the feed to the search result. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Merged current main (no rebase) to clear the conflict with #28125, which upgraded Legend List to 3.7.2 and deleted thread-feed-live-follow.ts along with the end-follow state machine.

How the resolution keeps this PR's intent:

  • settleThreadFeedJump and its tests moved to thread-feed-scroll-position.ts and its existing test file.
  • landJump keeps main's structure (cancel on cleanup, listRef.current === list guard) and now re-lands with viewPosition: 0 plus viewOffset: anchorTopInset + CHAT_LIST_ANCHOR_OFFSET, so tall messages open on their first lines.
  • A user drag still ends the landing loop, now through onScrollBeginDrag on the list.
  • Dropped the scroll-event guard and the resetEndFollow override. The code they patched no longer exists: main turns off maintainScrollAtEnd while a jump is pending.

vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests, React Compiler coverage). I did not re-run the iOS simulator check after the merge, so the landing on Legend List 3.7.2 has no device verification yet.

The CodeRabbit finding about an overridden jump was withdrawn on its own thread. In this version, a drag stops the loop, and the landing then resolves through onJumpedToMessage.

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Thanks for resolving the conflict with #28125. I checked the merged head (c2c6fa3) in the iOS simulator (iOS 27.2) with the development client and an isolated dev server. Searching a word that appears only in message 12 of a 386-message thread and tapping the result opened the thread with that message on screen, and the feed stayed there after the landing with no drift back toward the end. I did not exercise a drag during a landing.

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The scroll-to-end button scrolls without a drag, so a search jump still
landing would scroll back to the result. End the jump before scrolling.

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