Scroll position resets when posting a message

[Kunsi]

Steps to reproduce

1. Open somewhat high-traffic chat room
2. Scroll up
3. Reply to message
4. Scroll position is reset to bottom, showing the just posted message

Outcome

What did you expect?

Scroll position stays, like it happens in old Element Android or other clients

What happened instead?

Scroll position is reset to bottom, showing the just posted message (like in Element Web)

Your phone model

OnePlus 7

Operating system version

Android 12

Application version and app store

0.4.5 (from play store)

Homeserver

1.102.0+bookworm1 (from matrix.org debian repo)

Will you send logs?

No

Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

[Kunsi]

This is maybe somewhat related to #2268 and #2116

[frebib]

This was added deliberately https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/pull/2035

[Kunsi]

I don't understand why you would want this in a somewhat high-traffic room. I had to scroll up about 400 messages multiple times this morning (which is even more difficult with no working read markers, but that's a different issue), just because i replied to an older message. I would like to read my chats, not skip over last nights messages.

It seems to me that feature was added by someone only using Element X for 1:1 chats or very low-traffic rooms. This behaviour should be atleast configurable, if #2035 is what users want.

[bmarty]

I agree that this is not ideal, and I have rise the concern internally.

The current behavior is sort of a workaround until we get a local echo for sending attachment from the Rust SDK.

There are more details about this decision https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/issues/1877 if it helps.

Please keep using Element Android to reply to old messages...