[HOLD for payment 2024-04-05] [$500] Avatar of user who sent message disappears after deleting comment

[kavimuru]

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Version Number: 1.4.56-0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: n
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Issue reported by: Applause internal team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

1. Go to https://staging.new.expensify.com/
   and log in as user A
2. In incognito log in as user B
3. As user A, open the chat with user B and send a message
4. As user B, send two messages
5. As user B, delete the last sent message

Expected Result:

The avatar of user B is still displayed next to the sent message

Actual Result:

The avatar of user B disappears after deleting a message

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

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Bug6423493_1711131226128.Recording__333.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @anmurali

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @anmurali (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @bondydaa (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[kavimuru]

@bondydaa 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.