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feat: glide back to the present in conversations - #1250
Clicking the back-to-present button jumps straight to the newest message. This makes it glide there instead, so a long jump looks like motion instead of a teleport. Reduced motion still jumps instantly.
Changes
glideToPresent in lib/chat-scroll.ts - a requestAnimationFrame glide, capped at 500 ms, returns a cancel function.
The button uses it. Wheel, touch, key and pointer input cancels the glide.
Progress is clamped, so a frame that lands before the start can't move you backwards.
Trade-off
The curve is ease-out, so it's quickest at the start. For very long distances that means a big first step. I kept it because the 500 ms cap stops long threads from crawling, and it feels right in practice. Happy to change it if you'd rather have something more even.
Visual evidence
Before - desktop, instant jump:
before.test.mp4
After - desktop:
after.test.desktop.1.mp4
After - mobile:
after.test.mobile.1.mp4
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bun run test:unit / tests/Unit/ChatScroll.test.ts 11 pass
tests/Unit/ChatScroll.test.tsx 7 pass
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New Features
Returning to the latest message now uses a smooth animated scroll that adjusts to the distance and respects reduced-motion preferences.
The animation can be interrupted by jumping to another message or interacting with the conversation.
While the animation is active, new messages continue to update the seen position without interrupting the scroll. When scrolling ends or is interrupted, the conversation refreshes its position and unseen-message indicators to reflect the latest messages and current scroll location.
Chat scroll utilities now provide a timed glide to the present. ConversationThread uses it when jumping to the latest message and coordinates scroll state, pin clearance, unseen messages, and cancellation while the glide runs.
jumpToLatest glides to the present. Jump requests, unmounting, and scroll-anchor release cancel an active glide. Scroll and pin-clearance updates are coordinated while the glide runs.
A press on certain message controls can leave the glide running instead of preserving the current reading position. This is a bounded issue with a localized fix.
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Cancel the glide for pointer input on message content.
When a pointer press starts on a message, event.target !== event.currentTarget, so this handler does not cancel the glide. A user who starts selecting or dragging message content can therefore have the viewport continue moving under the pointer. Call releaseScrollAnchor() for bubbled pointer presses too; it does not prevent the pointer event’s default action.
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Review comment at @resources/js/components/chat/conversation-thread.tsx around
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Update the onPointerDown handler to call releaseScrollAnchor() for bubbled
pointer presses on message content as well as presses on the current target;
preserve the pointer event’s default behavior.
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Review comments at @resources/js/components/chat/conversation-thread.tsx:
- Around line 566-568: Update the glide-cancellation logic that clears
glideCancel and resets isGliding to recalculate isPinned from the scroller’s
actual position, so cancelling before a scroll event runs restores the correct
pin state.
- Around line 531-535: Update releaseScrollAnchor to recalculate unseen when it
cancels an active glide, reusing the existing unseen-count criteria and message
state. Keep scrollTop and seenLatest updates in the pinned branch guarded by
!isGliding.current so glide anchoring remains intact.
- Around line 639-643: Update anchor capture in onScroll to skip assigning
anchor.current while isGliding.current is true, while preserving the existing
reply-resizing condition. Keep the contentKey and ResizeObserver restoration
paths unchanged.
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- Around line 780-784: Update the onPointerDown handler to call
releaseScrollAnchor() for bubbled pointer presses on message content as well as
presses on the current target; preserve the pointer event’s default behavior.
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- Around line 583-584: After cancelling an active glide in the pointer handler,
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Cancel the glide during capture-phase pointer handling.
Reaction chips and voice-note controls stop pointer-down propagation before the scroller’s bubbling handler runs. A press on either control can therefore leave the active glide running. Register this handler in the capture phase.
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Update the pointer-down handler in the conversation thread to use capture-phase
handling, so it runs even when reaction chips or voice-note controls stop
propagation. Preserve the existing glide check and scroll-anchor release
behavior.
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thread to use capture-phase handling, so it runs even when reaction chips or
voice-note controls stop propagation. Preserve the existing glide check and
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Clicking the back-to-present button jumps straight to the newest message. This makes it glide there instead, so a long jump looks like motion instead of a teleport. Reduced motion still jumps instantly.
Changes
glideToPresentinlib/chat-scroll.ts- a requestAnimationFrame glide, capped at 500 ms, returns a cancel function.Trade-off
The curve is ease-out, so it's quickest at the start. For very long distances that means a big first step. I kept it because the 500 ms cap stops long threads from crawling, and it feels right in practice. Happy to change it if you'd rather have something more even.
Visual evidence
Before - desktop, instant jump:
before.test.mp4
After - desktop:
after.test.desktop.1.mp4
After - mobile:
after.test.mobile.1.mp4
Device verification
Mobile was checked with the browser's device toolbar.
Validation
bun run test:typespassbun run test:lintpassbun run test:unit/tests/Unit/ChatScroll.test.ts11 passtests/Unit/ChatScroll.test.tsx7 passcomposer testnot run locally, relying on CI.Note:
bun run test:unitonly matches*.test.ts, soChatScroll.test.tsxneedsbunx vp test.Summary by CodeRabbit