1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/features/messages.js b/src/features/messages.js
index dea454c..a35c0da 100644
--- a/src/features/messages.js
+++ b/src/features/messages.js
@@ -13498,7 +13498,9 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
     const key = mediaIdxKey(feedId);
     let r = mediaIdx.get(key);
     if (r) return r;
-    r = { key, replies: !!(feedDef(feedId) || {}).replies, images: new Map(), videos: new Map(), articles: new Map(), art: { until: 0, end: 0, empty: 0, head: 0 }, checked: new Set(), until: 0, end: false, empty: 0, loaded: false };
+    const order = () => ({ seq: new Map(), top: 0, bottom: 0, newest: 0 });
+    r = { key, replies: !!(feedDef(feedId) || {}).replies, images: new Map(), videos: new Map(), articles: new Map(), art: { until: 0, end: 0, empty: 0, head: 0 }, checked: new Set(), until: 0, end: false, empty: 0, loaded: false,
+      order: { images: order(), videos: order() } };
     mediaIdx.set(key, r);
     loadMediaIndex(key).then(async (rec) => {
       if (rec) {
@@ -14037,7 +14039,27 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
         out.push({ ev, url });
       }
     }
-    return out;
+    return settledOrder(r, kind, out);
+  }
+  // The grid's order holds for the session (Adam, 2026-10-23: clips the
+  // crawl found landed in the middle of the grid, above an older tail the
+  // index had from before, and the tiles already there jumped): what it
+  // shows first is newest first, and whatever turns up after goes under what
+  // is already there, in its own date order. Only a post newer than the top
+  // tile goes above it. Nothing is settled until the kept index is in, so
+  // the first paint is one date order, not two batches.
+  function settledOrder(r, kind, out) {
+    if (!r.loaded) return out;
+    const o = r.order[kind];
+    const key = (it) => it.ev.id + '|' + it.url;
+    const fresh = out.filter((it) => !o.seq.has(key(it)));
+    if (fresh.length) {
+      const above = o.seq.size ? fresh.filter((it) => it.ev.created_at > o.newest) : [];
+      for (const it of above.reverse()) o.seq.set(key(it), --o.top);
+      for (const it of fresh) if (!o.seq.has(key(it))) o.seq.set(key(it), ++o.bottom);
+      for (const it of fresh) if (it.ev.created_at > o.newest) o.newest = it.ev.created_at;
+    }
+    return out.sort((a, b) => o.seq.get(key(a)) - o.seq.get(key(b)));
   }
   // The feed's pictures (or clips) in reading order — every one of a post
   // before the next post's — for the pager opened from one in the feed: the