The goal isn't to match Figma here – we're explicitly ignoring the spacing for the Figma designs for the MessageList. Alicja designed those with lots of spacing, whereas our approach was more compact. I indciated to Alicja that she should follow the designs we already have in the mobile app, and that the spacing on the web app (before the recent changes) was already good.

The goal here is to undo the regression that occurred during the recent changes, NOT to match the Figma designs. A good place to start would be to check out an older version of the codebase (when we still had the SquadCal designs), take a screenshot, and see how it looked there.

Another approach would be to take a look at the spacing in the mobile app today, and see if it matches. It would probably be good to do both of these.

I don't think we should base this on the Figma designs, as I'm not sure the spacing there is correct.

Can you modify the test plan so that it includes a table comparing padding/margin on all MessageList items between native / web? You can pull these numbers directly from the code, or use something like the React Native "Inspector" from the debug menu

Passing back to you for the changes I requested on March 31st.

I'm pretty sure we explicitly talked about this before, but I'll mention it again: this needs to based on code archaeology, not visual exploration. Use git grep