[$500] [HOLD for payment 2023-12-18] Web/mWeb - Chat - Clicking pasted link to another conversation does not to redirect user

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.9-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
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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. Log in with any account
2. Navigate to any chat > copy its URL
3. Navigate to another chat > send the URL in conversation
4. Click on the link in chat

Expected Result:

User should be redirected to the chat from step 2

Actual Result:

User does not get redirected, console errors are thrown each time user clicks on the link
Android and IOS apps are crashing after taping on the link

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android: Native - app crashed
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native -app crashed
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6303853_1701910731283.2023-12-06_23-50-01.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @marcaaron (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[marcaaron]

I think this was me 😄 fix incoming

[situchan]

@marcaaron you were assigned in #32553 as well 😄 Shall I close?

[marcaaron]

I closed yours, yes. Thanks! Reviewing would be helpful - should be easy since I think we wrote the exact same code 🙃