Room - Flickering it's not here error when opening a room mention without access

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: 1.4.66.2
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
Found when validating PR : #40506
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

1. Account A: Log in with an expensifail account
2. Account A: Create a workspace
3. Account A: Create a room with the default settings
4. Account A: Invite a new Gmail account to the room
5. Account A: Mention #announce in the created room
6. Account B: Log in and open the room
7. Account B: Tap on the announce mention

Expected Result:

The page with the error shouldn't flicker.

Actual Result:

Flickering Hmm it's not here error when opening a room mention without access.
It always happens for the first tap, but you have to navigate back and to the mention again to repro the error for the second try. It also happens when you navigate to the announce room through a link.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6462608_1714121471802.az_recorder_20240426_102707.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @greg-schroeder (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[izarutskaya]

We think this issue might be related to the #vip-vsb.

[rlinoz]

This is the same as #40629, I think we can close it

[melvin-bot]

@greg-schroeder Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

[melvin-bot]

@greg-schroeder Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?