From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:18:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: view: display small and invalid time ranges
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae9422a30ff23da33f4454c6ba1279fb0193fe71;p=thirdparty%2Fpublic-inbox.git

view: display small and invalid time ranges

Instead of falling back to displaying the most recent messages
when there are too few (<200) or no messages in a time range,
show the small subset or return a 404 when there's no messages
at all.  This ought to be less confusing for users who want to
focus on a small subset of messages within a given timeframe.

Reported-by: Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/87zfbbpwhu.fsf@vuxu.org/
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diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 21cee63a7..91b3908ad 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -1272,10 +1272,6 @@ sub paginate_recent ($$) {
 	$t =~ /\A([0-9]{8,14})\z/ and $before = str2ts($1);
 
 	my $msgs = $ctx->{ibx}->over->recent($opts, $after, $before);
-	if (defined($after) && scalar(@$msgs) < $lim) {
-		$after = $before = undef;
-		$msgs = $ctx->{ibx}->over->recent($opts);
-	}
 	my $more = scalar(@$msgs) == $lim;
 	my ($newest, $oldest);
 	if (@$msgs) {