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As it turns out, our rerender_the_whole_thing function (used whenever we were adding messages and discovered that the resulting message list would be out-of-order) was just broken and scrolled the browser to a random location. This caused two user-facing bugs: * On very fast networks, if two users sent messages at very close to the same time, we could end up with out-of-order message deliveries, triggering this code path, which was intended to silently correct the situation, but failed. * In some narrows to streams with muted topics in the history but some recent traffic, the user's browser-cached history might have some gaps that mean the server fetch we do after narrowing discovers the history is out-of-order, again triggering the rerender_the_whole_thing code path. The fix is to just remove that function, adding a new option to the well-tested rerender_preserving_scrolltop (which has explicit logic to preserve the scroll position) instead. Fixes #12067. Likely also fixes #12498.
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