From 1382eac7e53e936fb6b4f8b62cd502ac20a7f3ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory McWilliams <cory@unprompted.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:05:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ssb: Paranoia around trying to avoid showing stale/irrelevant
 messages.  Need to rethink this approach entirely sometime.

---
 apps/ssb.json                |  2 +-
 apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js | 12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/ssb.json b/apps/ssb.json
index 8c4553ab..3445ffac 100644
--- a/apps/ssb.json
+++ b/apps/ssb.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
 	"type": "tildefriends-app",
 	"emoji": "🦀",
-	"previous": "&8uDmJfrjfiVcvxJlkYli5PqLnO8Xje/1qDVtzAXA7A4=.sha256"
+	"previous": "&/flKW9HptO5lHG19rMwc4GT9rGBFiRqVD87VDbWvsgc=.sha256"
 }
diff --git a/apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js b/apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js
index 38300de1..3f087b71 100644
--- a/apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js
+++ b/apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js
@@ -403,11 +403,11 @@ class TfTabNewsFeedElement extends LitElement {
 		let self = this;
 		this.loading++;
 		let messages = [];
-		let original_hash = this.hash;
+		let original_key = JSON.stringify([this.hash, this.channels_latest ?? {}]);
 		try {
-			if (this._messages_hash !== this.hash) {
+			if (this._messages_key !== original_key) {
 				this.messages = [];
-				this._messages_hash = this.hash;
+				this._messages_key = original_key;
 			}
 			this._messages_following = JSON.stringify(this.following);
 			this._private_messages = JSON.stringify([
@@ -429,7 +429,8 @@ class TfTabNewsFeedElement extends LitElement {
 		} finally {
 			this.loading--;
 		}
-		if (this.hash == original_hash) {
+		let current_key = JSON.stringify([this.hash, this.channels_latest ?? {}]);
+		if (current_key === original_key) {
 			this.messages = this.merge_messages(this.messages, messages);
 		}
 		this.time_loading = undefined;
@@ -485,7 +486,8 @@ class TfTabNewsFeedElement extends LitElement {
 	render() {
 		if (
 			!this.messages ||
-			this._messages_hash !== this.hash ||
+			this._messages_key !==
+				JSON.stringify([this.hash, this.channels_latest ?? {}]) ||
 			this._messages_following !== JSON.stringify(this.following) ||
 			this._private_messages !==
 				JSON.stringify([