[$500] Public room can't be seen on LHN after opening it from a link

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.3.93-0
**Reproducible in staging?:**Y
**Reproducible in production?:**Y
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to https://staging.new.expensify.com/
2. Log out
3. Navigate to this link - https://staging.new.expensify.com/r/3504895439653267
4. Log in with any accounts

Expected Result:

The public room should be displayed

Actual Result:

The public room can't be seen on LHN

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

Android: mWeb Chrome

iOS: Native

iOS: mWeb Safari

Window: Chrome

MacOS: Desktop

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Triggered auto assignment to @jliexpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[erquhart]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

If the current chat is a public room, it should show in the left hand nav.

What is the root cause of that problem?

Public rooms were removed from the left hand nav in a recent PR:
https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/27966/files#diff-65c096044d5f69b35bcdec14c99c4fda4580759df9b1a7c36650d58eea276f1d

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

Revert to fix (tested locally, works).

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

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[jliexpensify]

Hmm I'm unable to repro on Staging v1.3.93-0 (Chrome) - LHN is there for me:

[erquhart]

@jliexpensify left hand nav is there, but the public channel currently being viewed isn’t in the list.

[jliexpensify]

Ah sorry, my mistake - thanks @erquhart!