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Avoid flashes of glitching when viewing rooms #1323

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When viewing a room, it's common to momentarily get flashes of different loading states or backgrounds, similar to a flash of unstyled content on the web.

We should avoid this, smoothing over visual glitches by:

  • If showing a spinner in the timeline, only show it after several hundred ms (5-800?) of loading, to avoid it just flashing momentarily
  • Alpha'ing in & out the spinners over 100ms or so
  • Alpha'ing in the timeline content over 100ms or so, instead of it instantly flashing in

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A-TimelineO-FrequentAffects or can be seen by most users regularly or impacts most users' first experienceS-TolerableLow/no impact on usersT-EnhancementNew features, changes in functionality, performance boosts, user-facing improvements

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