App sends hundreds of concurrent recursive relations requests upon opening a room

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Steps to reproduce

1. Open Element X
2. Wait for it to sync
3. Open a room

Outcome

What did you expect?

Element X should not send hundreds of potentially concurrent relations requests, which are both deep in limit and also recursive, which causes excessive strain on the homeserver when there are multiple Element X clients active on the homeserver at once.

What happened instead?

Element X sent 111 requests seemingly concurrently, immediately after I opened the room: elementx.txt

Looking at the request logs for /relations/, in the past 19 hours, the server has received 27,542 relations pagination requests - 12.5k from Element X and 15k from SchildiNext (by user agent, multi-user homeserver) - of which 23,731 were for the one room, !9QlpOzYges1dnNmjTQk-tXtU0m4M4pp5GlXC4Ox3tvc.

Your phone model

iPhone 15

Operating system version

iOS 26.4.2

Application version

26.07.1 (234)

Homeserver

starstruck.systems

Will you send logs?

Yes