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The /activity feed rendered every loaded row and paged through a Show more button. The screen is now one virtua/solid Virtualizer (the same primitive SoupList and InboxList use) over a flat row list, so only rows near the viewport are in the DOM, and scrolling within a viewport of the end fetches the next 50 rows with no button.

Demo

Before (main) then after (this PR), same user with 90 events, wheel scrolling. On main the feed stops at Show more, nothing loads until the button is clicked, and the click resets the scroll to the top. On this branch the second page is requested as the scroll nears the end, the list keeps extending to the oldest rows, and the scroll position never moves.

a3_feed_paging_before_after.mp4

How

  • core/feed-rows.ts: FeedRow = overview | day | event | status | tail, flattenFeed(groups, { hasMore }), and shouldFetchMore({ scrollSize, viewportSize, offset }) (threshold is one viewport, floored at 100px, copied from SoupList). reuseRows(previous, next) carries row objects forward by key (event:<id>, day:<key>, …) so the virtualizer, which keys by reference, does not remount every mounted row when loadingMore flips or a refetch re-decodes the pages.
  • createMyActivityState exposes rows (overview first, so no startMargin measurement) and guards loadMore on hasNextPage && !isFetchingNextPage.
  • MyActivityView hosts <Virtualizer data={rows} scrollRef={scroller} onScroll={fetchMoreIfNearEnd} bufferSize={400}> inside the existing centered scroller, with one ts-pattern match over FeedRow.kind. The tail row shows Loading… while a page is in flight. A requestAnimationFrame re-check after rows change covers a first page that does not fill the viewport.
  • Each event row and top-entity chip carries its own <Suspense> with a same-height fallback (the presentational row without the entity mention, the chip without its icon). A row whose entity preview is a cold TanStack query suspends the nearest boundary; with rows now mounting on every scroll, the pane-level boundary was re-inserting the scroller and resetting scrollTop to 0 on every page. Found in the live lane, see below.
  • docs/AGENT_GUIDE/surfaces.md notes the virtualized list, auto paging, and the removed button.

Tests

  • feed-rows.test.ts: flatten order and tail, reuseRows identity, a shouldFetchMore table.
  • my-activity.test.ts: rows shape across loading → ready → paged, row identity survives loadMore, and loadMore ignores in-flight / exhausted states.
  • my-activity-view.test.tsx mocks virtua/solid (jsdom has no layout) and drives the registered onScroll: far from the end fetches nothing, near the end issues MyActivity with cursor-2, a second scroll in flight does not double-fetch, and the tail disappears on the last page.

Live evidence

Local stack, user with 90 events (70 seeded documents plus onboarding), 1280×860, driven with Playwright over CDP and wheel scrolling.

  • MyActivity was requested exactly twice: {cursor: null, limit: 50} on load, then {cursor: "eyJpZCI6…", limit: 50} as the scroll came within one viewport of the end. No Show more text anywhere.
  • [data-activity-row] count while scrolling all 90 rows: 23 at the top, 30 at the bottom, 42 peak during a range change. Never 90.
  • Scroll position survives every row mount after the Suspense fix (before it, scrollTop snapped to 0 on every wheel step that mounted new rows because the pane boundary detached the scroller).
  • rAF frame deltas over 60 wheel steps down and back up: p50 16.7ms, p95 16.8ms, max mounted rows 32.

Bottom of the feed after the second page landed

Stacking

Branched from main with #6235 (graph skeleton) and #6236 (inline chips) merged in, since all three edit the overview block of my-activity-view.tsx. Until those merge, this diff includes their commits; after they merge only the virtualization commits remain.

Part 4 of the activity feed polish program.

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  • New Features

    • Activity now appears in a single virtualized list for smoother scrolling.
    • More activity loads automatically as you approach the end of the list.
    • Loading states display a heatmap skeleton and loading indicator.
    • “Most active” items appear as clickable chips beneath the activity graph.
    • Activity entries are grouped under day headers.
    • Entity previews load independently without disrupting the feed.
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    • Updated Activity documentation to reflect the new layout, interactions, and loading behavior.

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The Activity surface now renders a geometry-matched graph skeleton during loading. It models the overview and feed as stable virtualized rows. Scrolling near the end triggers guarded page loading. Feed events render with per-row Suspense boundaries. Most-active entities render as pill chips below the graph. Activity documentation now describes grouped rows, virtualization, automatic pagination, and chip behavior.

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Refetching activity can show outdated day headers, and keyboard users cannot open the new most-active entity chips. Resolve these activity-view regressions before merging.

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apps/web/src/features/activity/core/feed-rows.test.ts (1)

2-3: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep this core test independent of queries.

These imports couple the feed-row tests to GraphQL decoding and wire fixtures. Define ActivityEvent fixtures in the core test so schema changes do not churn this core behavior test.

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In `@apps/web/src/features/activity/core/feed-rows.test.ts` around lines 2 - 3,
Update the feed-row core tests to remove imports of decodeActivityEvent,
createdEvent, and editedEvent from queries, and define local ActivityEvent
fixtures within the test. Keep the fixtures focused on the fields required by
the feed-row behavior so the test remains independent of GraphQL decoding and
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Use match from ts-pattern in rowKey. Replace the exhaustive switch with match(row) and terminate it with .exhaustive().

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In `@apps/web/src/features/activity/core/feed-rows.ts` around lines 30 - 40,
Update rowKey to replace the exhaustive switch over row.kind with a ts-pattern
match(row) expression, preserving the existing keys for overview, tail, day,
event, and status rows, and terminate the match chain with exhaustive().

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In `@apps/web/src/features/activity/core/feed-rows.ts`:
- Line 52: Update the row reuse logic around rowKey so a previously cached day
row is reused only when its displayed label matches the new row’s label;
otherwise retain the newly fetched row. Add a test covering the same group.key
with a changed relative or localized label.

In `@apps/web/src/features/activity/views/my-activity-view.tsx`:
- Line 262: Update the openable TopEntityChip rendering to use semantic button
semantics instead of a div, preserving its existing mouse activation behavior
while enabling focus and Enter/Space keyboard activation. Adjust the element
type used by useSplitNavigationHandler and related handler wiring so the button
props are type-safe.

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In `@apps/web/src/features/activity/core/feed-rows.test.ts`:
- Around line 2-3: Update the feed-row core tests to remove imports of
decodeActivityEvent, createdEvent, and editedEvent from queries, and define
local ActivityEvent fixtures within the test. Keep the fixtures focused on the
fields required by the feed-row behavior so the test remains independent of
GraphQL decoding and wire-format fixture changes.

In `@apps/web/src/features/activity/core/feed-rows.ts`:
- Around line 30-40: Update rowKey to replace the exhaustive switch over
row.kind with a ts-pattern match(row) expression, preserving the existing keys
for overview, tail, day, event, and status rows, and terminate the match chain
with exhaustive().

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export function reuseRows(previous: FeedRow[], next: FeedRow[]): FeedRow[] {
if (previous.length === 0) return next;
const byKey = new Map(previous.map((row) => [rowKey(row), row]));
return next.map((row) => byKey.get(rowKey(row)) ?? row);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not reuse a day row when its label changed.

rowKey excludes label, so this returns the old day row for the same group.key. The view then renders the stale label after a refetch changes a relative or localized day label. Reuse the row only when its displayed label also matches, and add that case to the test.

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-  return next.map((row) => byKey.get(rowKey(row)) ?? row);
+  return next.map((row) => {
+    const previousRow = byKey.get(rowKey(row));
+    if (
+      row.kind === 'day' &&
+      previousRow?.kind === 'day' &&
+      previousRow.label !== row.label
+    ) {
+      return row;
+    }
+    return previousRow ?? row;
+  });
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return next.map((row) => byKey.get(rowKey(row)) ?? row);
return next.map((row) => {
const previousRow = byKey.get(rowKey(row));
if (
row.kind === 'day' &&
previousRow?.kind === 'day' &&
previousRow.label !== row.label
) {
return row;
}
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In `@apps/web/src/features/activity/core/feed-rows.ts` at line 52, Update the row
reuse logic around rowKey so a previously cached day row is reused only when its
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The feed rendered every loaded row and paged through a Show more button.
The screen is now one virtua Virtualizer over a flat row list (overview,
day headers, events, a loading tail) built by flattenFeed, so only rows
near the viewport are mounted. Scrolling within a viewport of the end
fetches the next page (shouldFetchMore, the SoupList rule), loadMore is
guarded against double fetches, and reuseRows keeps row identity across
refetches so a paging flag flip does not remount the visible list.

Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
…croll

A row whose entity preview is a cold TanStack query suspends the nearest
boundary. With the feed virtualized that happened on every scroll, and the
pane-level Suspense re-inserted the scroller, resetting scrollTop to 0.
Each row and chip now carries its own boundary with a same-height fallback.

Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
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