Textbox not showing on mobile in chat channels

Hello! :slight_smile:

There is minor bug when trying to use the chat channels from the phone: the textbox in which you can see what you are typing will disappear when you tap on it to start writing (when the phone keyboard ā€œrisesā€ for you to type), and will not reappear when you start typing. I accidentally found that to make it reappear, I have to swipe up in the blank-space of the chatroom, so it seems like the text box actually remains where it was and is covered by the phone keyboard when it rises.

I have the latest stable Discourse version (up to April 18). My phone model: Motorola G6-Plus, Android 9.

I believe that may have been fixed in this commit:

If you update to latest this may already be sorted. :crossed_fingers:

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Thank you very much @JammyDodger for the quick answer :slight_smile:
I find I can not update the forum myself since Iā€™m using Communiteq, but it will just be a matter of days until the next update so I can wait. Itā€™s more than enough to know it has been considered, so thank you :grin:

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Not sure, @JammyDodger will this be backported to stable?
Otherwise we can move you to the tests-passed branch @lisandro_iaffar but weā€™ll need your agreement on that.

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Iā€™m still working on this whole day, itā€™s hopefully fixed but still merging big changes so there might be regressions today. No plan to merge this on stable for now sorry.

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Ah, Iā€™m sorry @lisandro_iaffar, I wasnā€™t paying close enough attention and didnā€™t register youā€™re on the Stable branch. Hopefully Richard will be able to sort you out. :crossed_fingers:

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Thank you @RGJ , @joffreyjaffeux and @JammyDodger for your answers and quick assitance, I can not appreciate that enough :slight_smile:

And thank you @RGJ for offering that solution :slight_smile: ; but I prefer to remain in the stable branch and wait. I have been waiting 2 years to get people to adopt the forum I have been working on, I can wait a bit more, no hurries :P.

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This is fine, and supported by management hereā€¦

We can not afford the engineering to backport this kind of stuffā€¦ chat has drifted TONS since we first released it. It is just too hard to pull in all the fixes.

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Itā€™s certainly fine - I hope my inquiry didnā€™t come across in a demanding way, I was just figuring out the best way forward.

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No worries, all good. I merged lots of fixes yesterday, I have one more small tweak on iOS but I think it will be all fixed soon.

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