new DMs you initiate appear in breadcrumbs with an initial of 'E', no matter who they're with

[ara4n]

i assume E stands for Empty Room. it should use the profile of the user you're DMing instead, obviously

[germain-gg]

I tried reproducing this issue on develop.element.io and was not able to
Not quite sure what to do next. Any chance you could share a little more information regarding this?

[ara4n]

hm, agreed. i guess it's possible i'm getting it mixed up with #16400, but i'm pretty sure that 3 times in a row i saw the new DM being added to breadcrumbs but with an E. In trying to repro it just now i captured #16400 instead. as per #16400 (comment)

[t3chguy]

It could also be related to the js-sdk bug (now fixed) with sentinel members/event contexts which caused the name/avatar to lag behind and might've bled through to room avatar/name calculation

[ara4n]

if that was fixed in today's nightly build, that might explain why i can't repro now.

[t3chguy]

Merged 2 days ago matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#1837 so potentially not

[ara4n]

right, i was on today's nightly, so i bet this is what was causing this.

[ara4n]

no, it's still happening. however, turns out this is a duplicate of #17480