[HOLD for payment 2024-10-04] [$250] Chat - New message line marker shown in the wrong position

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: 9.0.38-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): testpayment935@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Receive multiple messages from another account
3. Open another report and open the chat again to remove the unread marker
4. Reply in thread on one of the sent messages
5. Send a reply and go back by using the from link

Expected Result:

No new line marker gets shown

Actual Result:

New line marker shown under the message which has a reply

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6608923_1726754307057.video_2024-09-19_16-54-39.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @kadiealexander

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @kadiealexander (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.

[IuliiaHerets]

@kadiealexander FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[melvin-bot]

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @s77rt (External)

[klajdipaja]

We have a PR that addresses a different bug in the mark as unread functionality from issue#47817 that I worked on. The result of that PR is that the marker line does not show on the main chat when a message in a thread is marked unread.

If it is expected that the thread itself also shows as unread than I can work on this issue after the initial one is merged. IMO the New Message marker here would be confusing as it creates the idea that all messages in the main chat are unread were in fact only in the thread there are unread messages. We should add an indicator in the thread itself, for example if the user has 4 replies and 1 is new based the mark unread functionality, we can show: "1 New reply" instead of "4 Replies".

FYI @mollfpr