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Expand skipped conversation ancestors before For You VF - #97

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Expand skipped conversation ancestors before For You VF#97
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Bug

Thunder stores reply ancestors as [in_reply_to, conversation_root] and skips tweets in the middle of the thread. reverse_chron already runs ConversationGapAncestorHydrator so Following VF sees the skipped ancestor. Phoenix For You did not.

VFCandidateHydrator only fetches and should_drop_ancillary only reads candidate.ancestors. A Drop on the skipped middle tweet never reaches AncillaryVFFilter, so the reply still serves.

This is not muted-keyword ancestor text (PR 96). Not VF dual-role merge (PR 55 / 90).

Fix

Wire ConversationGapAncestorHydrator on the Phoenix candidate pipeline after core data, before QuoteHydrator. Same hydrator Following already uses. It expands [parent, root] to [parent, grandparent, root] when TES says the parent replies to someone else, and records tombstone ancestor ids.

Proof

  • Entry: Thunder ancestors [in_reply_to, conversation_root]
  • Sink: VFCandidateHydrator oon_ids + should_drop_ancillary + AncillaryVFFilter
  • Break: Phoenix never expanded the gap, so the skipped id was never VF-fetched
  • Viewer effect: reply in a thread whose skipped ancestor is Drop still serves on For You
  • Twin: reverse_chron ConversationGapAncestorHydrator

Tests

  • skipped_conversation_ancestor_does_not_drop_until_gap_expanded
  • existing ConversationGapAncestorHydrator expansion tests
  • unit tests added; cargo test cannot run in the public dump

Thunder stores [in_reply_to, conversation_root] and skips the middle
tweet. Following already expands that gap before VF. Phoenix did not, so
AncillaryVFFilter never saw a Drop on the skipped ancestor. Wire
ConversationGapAncestorHydrator on the Phoenix candidate path.
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