From fe8d2c1ff9ec85a21e0e8c5304c523d7fbde1b14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Connor Turland <connorturland@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:02:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] turns out chatview was heavily hogging memory

---
 frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/ChatView.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/ChatView.js b/frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/ChatView.js
index 0be3d9f2..186a61f6 100644
--- a/frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/ChatView.js
+++ b/frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/ChatView.js
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ const ChatView = {
     if (!isInitial && !self.isOpen) self.unreadMessages += 1
     if (!wasMe && !isInitial && self.alertSound) self.sound.play('receivechat')
     self.messages.add(message)
-    self.render()
+    if (!isInitial && self.isOpen) self.render()
   },
   sendChatMessage: message => {
     var self = ChatView