[Due for payment 2025-08-15] Reports - New message button appears and disappears when expense RHP is opened

[jponikarchuk]

If you haven’t already, check out our contributing guidelines for onboarding and email contributors@expensify.com to request to join our Slack channel!

---

Version Number: 9.1.89-1
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: Exp https://test-management.browserstack.com/projects/2219752/test-runs/TR-77/folder/13176730/41237116/822774788
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): -
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.5 / Chrome
App Component: Search

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Create a workspace.
3. Go to workspace chat.
4. Submit an expense.
5. Open the expense report.
6. Send many messages until the chat is scrollable.
7. Mark the latest message as unread.
8. Go to Reports > Expenses.
9. Open the expense from Step 4.

Expected Result:

New message button will not appear and disappear.

Actual Result:

New message button appears and disappears.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

1.mp4

View all open jobs on GitHub

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @trjExpensify

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @trjExpensify (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.

[melvin-bot]

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

[github-actions]

👋 Friendly reminder that deploy blockers are time-sensitive ⏱ issues! Check out the open `StagingDeployCash` deploy checklist to see the list of PRs included in this release, then work quickly to do one of the following:

1. Identify the pull request that introduced this issue and revert it.
2. Find someone who can quickly fix the issue.
3. Fix the issue yourself.

[melvin-bot]

💬 A slack conversation has been started in #expensify-open-source

[dangrous]

Traced this to #66852 - have requested they take a look, and if we can't find a fix soonish we can revert.

Curious why Melvin made this a daily instead of an hourly?

[huult]

#64012 (comment) commented