From 9f66bdc8a5f66e4f754d753b5b455f3dc2de1d2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Schmidhuber <git@schmidhuberj.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:08:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(manager): Fix channel not emitted on first message

---
 CHANGELOG.md           | 1 +
 src/backend/manager.rs | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 13c4d9d..5f125a0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Fixed
 
 - Don't panic when setting up the database failed.
+- Channels were not listed in the channel list after their first message was received, until Flare was restarted.
 
 ## [0.22.6] - 2026-10-15
 
diff --git a/src/backend/manager.rs b/src/backend/manager.rs
index ffc454f..dd18f81 100644
--- a/src/backend/manager.rs
+++ b/src/backend/manager.rs
@@ -297,10 +297,17 @@ impl Manager {
             message.set_pending(pending);
 
             let channel = message.channel();
+
             channel
                 .new_message(message)
                 .await
                 .expect("Failed to add message to the channel");
+
+            // Emit channels if this is the first message (channels that already had messages were already emitted when initialized or earlier on their first message).
+            let first_message_in_timeline = channel.timeline().n_items() == 1;
+            if first_message_in_timeline {
+                self.emit_by_name::<()>("channel", &[&channel]);
+            }
         } else if let Some(msg) = message.as_amendment_message() {
             log::trace!("Message is an amendment message");
             // TODO: Error?