after like 3 weeks of work i managed to finally get out the PR i've been working on. 67 files touched, ouch. this is not a brag. that's a bad thing. but this was also a "rearchitect how the main messaging component works", which is tied in with a lot of other parts, so I could not figure out how to do this in small, incremental pieces without ripping off the bandaid.

rip my team for having to review this thing. it does have some killer unit tests with it, though.