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Jump to Date
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Description
#### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Finding old messages can be very painful. You need to scroll far and wait for batches of messages to be fetched from the server. This also uses a lot of data as it downloads all of the messages and images between now and the date you care about.
#### Describe the solution you'd like.
There should be a feature to jump to an arbitrary date. Once there you can scroll to nearby messages as normal.
#### Describe alternatives you've considered.
In a non-encrypted room you can try to search for a message that you remember from an approximate time. But that requires remembering a message and only works in unencrypted rooms.
Faster history loading would also mitigate the issue but will always be slow on slow connections.
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