Found a way around this in case anyone is curious. Interact directly with the Adalo API and use the offset function to skip through old records (this will shorten the list one has to scroll through). Then use an offset counter as a property for the logged-in user and allow them to scroll up and “show all messages” (with a button press) if they want to (and reset the offset counter to 0 upon pressing the button) which will propagate the entire message history.