From 2ab7e23790e416f16ea3ba939dd6a91bb8cfa936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Hodgson <matthew@matrix.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:17:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix SYWEB-41 (hopefully)

---
 webclient/room/room-controller.js | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/webclient/room/room-controller.js b/webclient/room/room-controller.js
index cfdc6d0157..ac8f767d16 100644
--- a/webclient/room/room-controller.js
+++ b/webclient/room/room-controller.js
@@ -703,7 +703,13 @@ angular.module('RoomController', ['ngSanitize', 'matrixFilter', 'mFileInput'])
                 if ($rootScope.events.rooms[$scope.room_id]) {
 
                     // There is no need to do a 1st pagination (initialSync provided enough to fill a page)
-                    $scope.state.first_pagination = false;
+                    if ($rootScope.events.rooms[$scope.room_id].messages.length) {
+                        $scope.state.first_pagination = false;
+                    }
+                    else {
+                        // except if we just joined a room, we won't have this history from initial sync, so we should try to paginate it anyway                        
+                        $scope.state.first_pagination = true;
+                    }
 
                     var members = $rootScope.events.rooms[$scope.room_id].members;
 
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