diff --git a/Tusker/Screens/Conversation/ConversationCollectionViewController.swift b/Tusker/Screens/Conversation/ConversationCollectionViewController.swift
index 18df951b..5abdbece 100644
--- a/Tusker/Screens/Conversation/ConversationCollectionViewController.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Screens/Conversation/ConversationCollectionViewController.swift
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ 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.reconfigureItems([mainStatusItem])
+        // don't need to reconfigure main item, since when the refreshed copy was loaded
+        // it would have triggered a reconfigure via the status observer
 
         // convert sub-threads into items for section and add to snapshot
         self.addFlattenedChildThreadsToSnapshot(tree.descendants, mainStatus: mainStatus, snapshot: &snapshot)