element-hq
Timeline flickers
Steps to reproduce
- Jump a few 100 messages back in the timeline
- Scroll down
- Stop scrolling
Outcome
What did you expect?
Can read messages
What happened instead?
Timeline flickers, keeps going blank, shows different messages every time it loads. If I wait long enough (10-15 seconds), it stops flickering
Operating system
No response
Browser information
Version 114.0.5735.198 (Official Build) Arch Linux
URL for webapp
develop.element.io
Application version
Element version: 311c5fec664d-react-186497a67d09-js-e68a1471c12c Olm version: 3.2.14
Homeserver
matrix.org
Will you send logs?
Yes
I have this again, after it had gone. The lines of text move slightly up and down, out of sync. When scrolling down, after three or so pages the screen jumps back - but the second time one can scroll down six pages, only to jump back three pages again. And then at some places, the screen suddenly goes blank and stays blank (white - even though I have dark mode on). Closing and restarting helps sometimes, but there are places that are impossible to scroll to, as the screen will go blank when approaching those locations.
By now I am in trouble. I got too close to the blanking point in the timeline, and now Element blanks as soon as I restart it. I just hope it doesn't always do that, so that I can change rooms and avoid the offending one..
I got in again. When jumping back (a few thousand messages) by clicking on a quoted message, the above behaviour happens. I just spend fifteen minutes scrolling up to that quoted message, and now the system seems all stable. No trembling, no blanking, no jumping back up when scrolling down.
🤚 also seeing this with Firefox 132. Scrolling the room results in timeline flickering. Flickering ends after a few seconds. Continue scrolling, back to flickering for a few seconds, repeat.
This happened after going to last read message which was a bit back in timeline. It was not possible to scroll back to new messages as the timeline seemed stuck in a loop or something was preventing proper scrolling.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/51fab6b5-1415-462a-acf2-c5f1690757c3
I still have the jump-back once in a while, when scrolling down (i.e. towards the last message received) - I scroll down, and at some point the timeline jumps back up.