The messenger rendered the participant figure straight from the frozen
thread participant, so offline friends (whose look used to be empty)
showed the anonymous/standard avatar. Read the live look from the friend
list via getFriend() - the same source the friends list renders - with
resolveAvatarFigure() as the final fallback, so the real avatar shows
even when offline (pairs with the server fix that now sends offline
looks). Applied to both the avatar-bar tab and the in-thread avatars.
Also fix the avatar-tab head framing: it positioned the head-only image
with full-body geometry (90x130, top:-31px), clipping the head. Render
the head at native size (background-size:auto, no scaling -> not grainy)
and centre it in the 36x36 tab.
React 19 dropped the no-arg useRef overload — the type-only useRef<T>()
form (no initial value) is gone, every call must pass an initial value.
The codebase had 15 occurrences of useRef<HTMLDivElement>() (DOM ref
pattern) all flagged by tsgo as 'Expected 1 arguments, but got 0'.
Mechanical sweep to useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null) — no behavior change,
React still hands out a ref object with .current set to null at mount.
Net tsgo error count: 57 -> 42.
simoleo89