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I'm not quite sure I understand why you would need to scroll for 25 minutes to find an old message in WhatsApp when search is available.

• pessimizer 5y ago
  My first guess would be because what you're looking for isn't tagged with unique keywords (maybe just a vague idea of a date), or because pulling up a single message may not pull in it's context "grep -A/B/C" style.
• ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  I needed evidence that 2 years ago I was in touch with that person - what was sent didnt matter, nor did i remember contents of the message at all. If what's app was not crap you could search by date, but I had to scroll.
  • spuz 5y ago
    Ok that makes sense - I think the best solution in that case is to try to think of a word that you may have used around that time and search for that - then if you get the right year you can at least scroll from there. Even so, I think WhatsApp's scroll is pretty fast especially compared to Teams. Teams only seems to be able to store 1 page worth of content in memory at any one time which makes scrolling for anything even an hour back excruciating.
    • ClumsyPilot 5y ago
      You scroll whatsapp for a bit, and then it takes 30s to load messages. Telegram scroll is Instant, and trully endless, like a native app loading text should be
      • stjohnswarts 5y ago
        You'd think they would use the scroll bar like text editors do on huge documents. Just jump back to that point and keep +/- several screens rather than the entire freaking buffer. I wrote that for a basic text editor that I wrote for fun and it wasn't actually hard and would open gigabyte size documents almost instantly because I was only ever loading about a megabyte of info rather than the whole stinking file.