Faces on messages only in conversations of three or more

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September 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM UTC
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Kamo
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8d2e336

A face beside every message tells people apart, and between two people the side a message is drawn on already does that - so the corner face now appears only when three or more people are in the conversation (showsFaces), and never while the count is unknown, so a face is never shown and then taken away. - Chat: counted from the roster the window already holds, which follows people joining and leaving live; a two-person chat does not even ask for faces. - Support, Social, Exec2Exec: the server's count, now on the faces answer (MediaService e722c90) - each person once however many seats they hold, a social contact included. Name/attribution insets and the row headroom that make room for the face apply only when it is there. - SMS and AI Chat are always two parties (one member's number and one other; the member and the assistant), so their face code is removed entirely - back to exactly what they were - along with useOwnPhoto and MessageAvatar's glyph, which only they used.

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