diff --git a/Tusker/Screens/Conversation/ConversationCollectionViewController.swift b/Tusker/Screens/Conversation/ConversationCollectionViewController.swift
index 3431f273..18df951b 100644
--- a/Tusker/Screens/Conversation/ConversationCollectionViewController.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Screens/Conversation/ConversationCollectionViewController.swift
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ class ConversationCollectionViewController: UIViewController, CollectionViewCont
             Item.status(id: node.status.id, node: node, state: .unknown, prevLink: index > 0, nextLink: true)
         }
         snapshot.appendItems(parentItems, toSection: .ancestors)
-        snapshot.reloadItems([mainStatusItem])
+        snapshot.reconfigureItems([mainStatusItem])
 
         // convert sub-threads into items for section and add to snapshot
         self.addFlattenedChildThreadsToSnapshot(tree.descendants, mainStatus: mainStatus, snapshot: &snapshot)