This update focused on the chat drawer, the create-chat flow, the conversation experience, and the loading behavior around messages.

Chats and new chat flow

• The Chats drawer now matches the same search and navigation language used in Vision.
• Opening a full conversation is more direct, while the quick preview flow remains available when needed.
• Creating a new private or group conversation now feels lighter and more step-by-step.
• Selected people in the create-chat flow are shown in a more compact and cleaner way.

Conversation experience

• The mini chat preview was redesigned as a centered modal, giving it a clearer role as a quick chat surface.
• Full chat and mini chat now share a more consistent message composer style.
• Conversation spacing, date separators, reply previews, and footer layout were refined for a cleaner reading experience.
• Dark mode contrast was improved in a few key places, especially around reply previews and message surfaces.

Performance and responsiveness

• Common chat-list updates now happen more quickly, especially when new messages arrive.
• Latest-message edits update the chat preview faster.
• Message sending and message editing feel more immediate through lighter update handling and optimistic UI in the main conversation view.
• Several loading states were softened by replacing attention-heavy linear progress bars with gentler inline loaders.
• Message and socket handling were tightened to reduce stale UI states and unnecessary rerendering.

Follow-up

We are continuing to refine group conversation previews in future updates.