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Touches core chat sidebar data fetching, virtualization, and keyboard navigation; regressions could affect focus, scrolling, or which channel opens when deep-linking.

Overview
Adds paginated, independently loaded channel lists for Chat navigation and wires them through a shared list interaction hook.

List framework: useListInteractions now supports navigation.onBeforeMove so a consumer can block focus moves (return false) while fetching the next page at a list boundary; the list README documents this pattern.

Channels data layer: Replaces a single tab-scoped query with useChannelsSources—three ListDataSource scopes (channels, direct_messages, recents) with loadMore / hasMore, scope-specific sort, and helpers to dedupe loaded channels and resolve the selected channel (including a by-id fetch when the selection isn’t in loaded pages).

Desktop rail: Browse/Recents and slim/full rails render virtualized section lists with scroll-based pagination, loading skeletons, and retry UI. Keyboard j/Arrow Down on the last loaded row triggers loadMore and keeps focus until more rows arrive, then allows crossing into the next section; virtualizer handles integrate with list scroll-to-focus.

Mobile: Each pill tab uses its active scope’s data source with the same pagination and improved empty vs. partial-load error handling.

Docs: Agent guide updated for rail pagination and keyboard behavior.

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  • New Features

    • Channel navigation now supports paginated loading across channels, direct messages, and recent conversations.
    • Lists load more items as you scroll or navigate, with virtualized rendering for smoother performance.
    • Selected channels remain available even when they are not yet loaded in the navigation list.
    • Keyboard navigation can trigger loading at list boundaries while preserving focus.
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    • Added clearer loading, empty, and error states with retry actions for channel lists.
  • Documentation

    • Documented channel navigation, pagination, virtualization, and keyboard behavior.

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The change adds boundary-aware list navigation and exports its event type. The channels view now uses independent data sources for channels, direct messages, and recents. It deduplicates loaded channels and fetches an absent selected channel by ID. Desktop, slim, and mobile rails now use scoped virtualizers with pagination, loading states, retry states, and independent scroll handling. Rail context rows include scope and local index data. Documentation describes the updated navigation and pagination behavior.

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A failed channel load or retry can result in an unhandled client error. Containing request failures in the shared data source is a small, localized fix recommended before merge.

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Selection shows empty while fetching

Medium Severity

When selectedChannelId is set but missing from loaded pages, selectedChannel returns nothing while useChannelByIdQuery is in flight. The main pane then renders the empty “Select a conversation” state for a selection that already exists.

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apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts (1)

158-161: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Contain the rejections inside ChannelsDataSource. loadMore and refresh both await a query method that rejects on a failed request, and every call site discards the promise with void or passes the method directly as a click handler. Each failure becomes an unhandled promise rejection. The rendered failure already comes from source.error(), so no call site needs the rejection.

  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts#L158-L161: wrap await query.refresh() in try/catch, and apply the same containment to await query.fetchNextPage() in loadMore so error() remains the single failure channel.
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/hooks/useChannelRailState.ts#L97-L97: keep void source.loadMore() once the source contains its own rejection, or add .catch(() => {}) if you prefer to leave loadMore rejecting.
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In `@apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts` around lines 158 - 161,
Contain query rejections within ChannelsDataSource by wrapping query.refresh in
refresh and query.fetchNextPage in loadMore with try/catch while preserving
error() as the failure channel. In
apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts lines 158-161, update refresh
accordingly and apply the same handling to loadMore. In
apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/hooks/useChannelRailState.ts
line 97, keep void source.loadMore() unchanged once loadMore contains its
rejection.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts`:
- Line 33: Verify that cursor pagination for the recents scope remains stable
when using the updated_at sort in CHANNELS_QUERY_PARAMS. Confirm backend keyset
semantics prevent channels updated during pagination from moving between pages;
otherwise, replace the mutable sort with a stable ordering or add cursor
anchoring. Preserve unique channel IDs within each recents page before passing
results to createListController.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts`:
- Around line 158-161: Contain query rejections within ChannelsDataSource by
wrapping query.refresh in refresh and query.fetchNextPage in loadMore with
try/catch while preserving error() as the failure channel. In
apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts lines 158-161, update refresh
accordingly and apply the same handling to loadMore. In
apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/hooks/useChannelRailState.ts
line 97, keep void source.loadMore() unchanged once loadMore contains its
rejection.

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  • apps/web/src/components/list/README.md
  • apps/web/src/components/list/index.ts
  • apps/web/src/components/list/use-list-interactions.ts
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/channels-view.tsx
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/ChannelsMobileView.tsx
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/ChannelsRail.tsx
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/ChannelsRailContext.ts
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/ChannelsRailSection.tsx
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/ExpandedChannelsRail.tsx
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/SlimChannelsRail.tsx
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/hooks/useChannelRailActivity.ts
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/components/rail/hooks/useChannelRailState.ts
  • apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts
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export const CHANNELS_QUERY_DEFINITIONS = {
recents: {
params: CHANNELS_QUERY_PARAMS,
params: { ...CHANNELS_QUERY_PARAMS, sort_method: 'updated_at' },

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Verify cursor pagination stability for the recents scope with updated_at sort.

The recents scope now uses cursor-based pagination sorted by updated_at. Channels update their updated_at timestamp when new messages arrive. If the backend uses keyset pagination on the sort field, a channel's row can move between pages during user pagination, causing duplicates or skips.

deduplicateChannels only removes duplicates across scopes; it does not deduplicate within a single scope. If duplicate channel IDs appear in a single recents page, they will both reach createListController (which uses getKey: (row) => row.id for its list keys).

Confirm that the backend's cursor semantics prevent row movement during pagination for a mutable sort field, or consider a stable sort or keyset anchoring strategy.

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In `@apps/web/src/features/channels-view/queries.ts` at line 33, Verify that
cursor pagination for the recents scope remains stable when using the updated_at
sort in CHANNELS_QUERY_PARAMS. Confirm backend keyset semantics prevent channels
updated during pagination from moving between pages; otherwise, replace the
mutable sort with a stable ordering or add cursor anchoring. Preserve unique
channel IDs within each recents page before passing results to
createListController.

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const channels = (query.data?.entities ?? []).filter(isChannelEntity);
return filterChannelsForScope(scope, channels);
}, []);

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Empty filtered page stops pagination

Medium Severity

Recents applies channelHasMessages after the server page is fetched. If the loaded page(s) filter down to zero items while hasMore() is still true, the UI renders the empty state and never mounts the virtualizer, so loadMoreNearEnd cannot run and later pages that would contain conversations are never requested.

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sources.channels.items(),
sources.direct_messages.items(),
sources.recents.items(),
])

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Browse unread counts miss later pages

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Section unread badges only increment when the notified channel is already present in loadedChannels. On Browse the recents source is disabled and channels/DMs are paged by created_at, so recently active unread conversations often never enter that set and the section counts stay too low.

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