Ensure that feed renegeration restores non-zero items (#5409)

Fix #5398

Ordering the home timeline query by account_id meant that the first
100 items belonged to a single account. There was also no reason to
reverse-iterate over the statuses. Assuming the user accesses the
feed halfway-through, it's better to have recent statuses already
available at the top. Therefore working from newer->older is ideal.

If the algorithm ends up filtering all items out during last-mile
filtering, repeat again a page further. The algorithm terminates
when either at least one item has been added, or if the database
query returns nothing (end of data reached)

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/app/lib/feed_manager.rb b/app/lib/feed_manager.rb
index dfd11a23b..cc19c1d1a 100644
--- a/app/lib/feed_manager.rb
+++ b/app/lib/feed_manager.rb
@@ -100,11 +100,24 @@ class FeedManager
   end
 
   def populate_feed(account)
-    prepopulate_limit = FeedManager::MAX_ITEMS / 4
-    statuses = Status.as_home_timeline(account).order(account_id: :desc).limit(prepopulate_limit)
-    statuses.reverse_each do |status|
-      next if filter_from_home?(status, account)
-      add_to_feed(:home, account, status)
+    added  = 0
+    limit  = FeedManager::MAX_ITEMS / 2
+    max_id = nil
+
+    loop do
+      statuses = Status.as_home_timeline(account)
+                       .paginate_by_max_id(limit, max_id)
+
+      break if statuses.empty?
+
+      statuses.each do |status|
+        next if filter_from_home?(status, account)
+        added += 1 if add_to_feed(:home, account, status)
+      end
+
+      break unless added.zero?
+
+      max_id = statuses.last.id
     end
   end