From d76b76d04199312724c1ac5edb84bb30cd551bbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug <6060466+pixlwave@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 10:34:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't group timeline items if more than 5 minutes has passed.
 (#4138)

Matches the behaviour on web.
---
 ElementX/Sources/Screens/Timeline/TimelineViewModel.swift | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ElementX/Sources/Screens/Timeline/TimelineViewModel.swift b/ElementX/Sources/Screens/Timeline/TimelineViewModel.swift
index 67cec5ec7..eae7ef764 100644
--- a/ElementX/Sources/Screens/Timeline/TimelineViewModel.swift
+++ b/ElementX/Sources/Screens/Timeline/TimelineViewModel.swift
@@ -840,8 +840,9 @@ class TimelineViewModel: TimelineViewModelType, TimelineViewModelProtocol {
             return false
         }
         
-        //  can be improved by adding a date threshold
-        return eventTimelineItem.properties.reactions.isEmpty && eventTimelineItem.sender == otherEventTimelineItem.sender
+        return eventTimelineItem.sender == otherEventTimelineItem.sender
+            && eventTimelineItem.properties.reactions.isEmpty // Reactions break the grouping.
+            && otherEventTimelineItem.timestamp.timeIntervalSince(eventTimelineItem.timestamp) < 5 * 60 // As does the passage of time.
     }
 
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