Somewhere in the past month we went from being able to scroll back in the chat history, to being able to scroll back a teeny-tiny-miniscule amount then having to click “Load older messages”. We’ve solved this problem about 40 years ago, users should not have to click anything when scrolling up. Please fix this. There is literally zero reason to ever have to click on something to see older history. @danperks
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Hey, especially on slower machines, loading and populating what could be an extremely long, or interactive (full of files and terminals) history can be surprisingly heavy in compute and disk read, so we’ve preference the safe bet of forcing a manual click for this right now.
We may work on this in the future to ensure it’s efficient enough to do this without any performance hit or risk.
Understand the challenge, but read-ahead as you scroll is fairly trivial to implement. I bet Gemini-2.5 could do it for you 
Also – how many developers who are using cursor in full agent mode on slower machines realistically? At least make it a reasonable look back. Having to click load more on a screenful is painful as can be. Also, the UX is bizarre, if I click load more, then don’t reposition me to the TOP of the revealed text, leave me where I was in the flow so i can keep scrolling up looking for the think Im going back for.
see Slack (or any other messaging app) for how to handle infinitely long sessions with text, images, and large data files, and no “load more” buttons. This should really be straightforward to implement.