This diff is a follow-up to @palys-swm's comment in D3410.

1. I tested different values of defaultMaxMessageAge such that some threads would return fewer than defaultNumberPerThread, and some threads would return 0
2. I tested threads that needed a fetchMostRecentMessages, and threads that needed multiple fetchMessagesBeforeCursor to get to the start
3. I made sure all threads loaded all the way to the start of a thread if I kept scrolling