diff --git a/src/app/components/ArticleActions.svelte b/src/app/components/ArticleActions.svelte
index b57d4bee..004fd113 100644
--- a/src/app/components/ArticleActions.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/ArticleActions.svelte
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
       </button>
     {/each}
   </div>
-  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event}>
+  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event} {context}>
     <ReactionSummary
       {url}
       {event}
diff --git a/src/app/components/CalendarEventActions.svelte b/src/app/components/CalendarEventActions.svelte
index 81451175..f6e0ae16 100644
--- a/src/app/components/CalendarEventActions.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/CalendarEventActions.svelte
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
       Posted in #<RoomName {h} {url} />
     </Link>
   {/if}
-  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event}>
+  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event} {context}>
     <ReactionSummary
       {url}
       {event}
diff --git a/src/app/components/ClassifiedActions.svelte b/src/app/components/ClassifiedActions.svelte
index ff8f803c..024ea480 100644
--- a/src/app/components/ClassifiedActions.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/ClassifiedActions.svelte
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
       </button>
     {/each}
   </div>
-  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event}>
+  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event} {context}>
     {#snippet status()}
       <ClassifiedStatus {event} />
     {/snippet}
diff --git a/src/app/components/CommentActions.svelte b/src/app/components/CommentActions.svelte
index 4ad8d368..60ef3487 100644
--- a/src/app/components/CommentActions.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/CommentActions.svelte
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-between gap-2">
   <div class="flex grow flex-wrap justify-end gap-2">
-    <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event}>
+    <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event} {context}>
       <ReactionSummary
         {url}
         {event}
diff --git a/src/app/components/GoalActions.svelte b/src/app/components/GoalActions.svelte
index 8c94c43c..3fa17fcd 100644
--- a/src/app/components/GoalActions.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/GoalActions.svelte
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
       Posted in #<RoomName {h} {url} />
     </Link>
   {/if}
-  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event}>
+  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event} {context}>
     <ReactionSummary
       {url}
       {event}
diff --git a/src/app/components/PollActions.svelte b/src/app/components/PollActions.svelte
index 90d24f39..3a661974 100644
--- a/src/app/components/PollActions.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/PollActions.svelte
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
       Posted in #<RoomName {h} {url} />
     </Link>
   {/if}
-  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event}>
+  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event} {context}>
     <ReactionSummary
       {url}
       {event}
diff --git a/src/app/components/RoomItem.svelte b/src/app/components/RoomItem.svelte
index 289f60c6..8eddd2ad 100644
--- a/src/app/components/RoomItem.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/RoomItem.svelte
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <script lang="ts">
   import cx from "classnames"
-  import {get, readable} from "svelte/store"
+  import {readable} from "svelte/store"
   import {
     hash,
     gte,
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
   import RoomItemMenuMobile from "@app/components/RoomItemMenuMobile.svelte"
   import RoomItemContent from "@app/components/RoomItemContent.svelte"
   import {profiles, thunks, user} from "@app/core"
+  import {noThunks, thunksByEventId} from "@app/thunks"
   import {colors} from "@app/theme"
   import {ENABLE_ZAPS} from "@app/env"
   import type {FeedContext} from "@app/feeds"
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@
   const h = tagValue(tagSpec("h"), event.tags)
   const today = formatTimestampAsDate(now())
   const profileDisplay = $profiles.display(event.pubkey, [url]).$
-  const thunk = $thunks.merge(get($thunks.history).filter(t => t.event.id === event.id))
+  const thunk = $derived($thunks.merge($thunksByEventId.get(event.id) ?? noThunks))
   const [_, colorValue] = colors[hash(event.pubkey) % colors.length]
 
   const qTag = matchTag(tagSpec("q"), event.tags)
diff --git a/src/app/components/ThreadActions.svelte b/src/app/components/ThreadActions.svelte
index 56043ebd..78600237 100644
--- a/src/app/components/ThreadActions.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/ThreadActions.svelte
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
       Posted in #<RoomName {h} {url} />
     </Link>
   {/if}
-  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event}>
+  <ThunkStatusOrDeleted {event} {context}>
     <ReactionSummary
       {url}
       {event}
diff --git a/src/app/components/ThunkPending.svelte b/src/app/components/ThunkPending.svelte
index b3ae2e3a..f6f1cd83 100644
--- a/src/app/components/ThunkPending.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/ThunkPending.svelte
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 <div class="flex w-full justify-end px-1 text-xs {restProps.class}">
   <span class="flex items-center gap-1">
-    <span class="spinner-xs mx-1 h-3 w-3 translate-y-px"></span>
+    <span class="spinner spinner-xs mx-1 translate-y-px"></span>
     <span class="opacity-50">Sending...</span>
     <button
       type="button"
diff --git a/src/app/components/ThunkStatusOrDeleted.svelte b/src/app/components/ThunkStatusOrDeleted.svelte
index ef1707f0..ac73f1bd 100644
--- a/src/app/components/ThunkStatusOrDeleted.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/ThunkStatusOrDeleted.svelte
@@ -2,24 +2,22 @@
   import type {Snippet} from "svelte"
   import type {TrustedEvent} from "@welshman/util"
   import {PublishStatus} from "@welshman/net"
-  import {deriveIsDeleted} from "@app/repository"
   import ThunkStatus from "@app/components/ThunkStatus.svelte"
   import {thunks} from "@app/core"
+  import type {FeedContext} from "@app/feeds"
+  import {noThunks, thunksByEventId} from "@app/thunks"
 
   type Props = {
     event: TrustedEvent
+    context: FeedContext
     status?: Snippet
     children?: Snippet
   }
 
-  const {event, status, children}: Props = $props()
-
-  // Editing a replaceable event hands this a different event
-  const deleted = $derived(deriveIsDeleted(event))
-  const history = $thunks.history
-  // Subscribed rather than read: a thunk mutates its results in place and notifies, so reading
-  // them off the object would leave this showing a publish that has since finished.
-  const thunk = $derived($thunks.merge($history.filter(t => t.event.id === event.id)))
+  const {event, context, status, children}: Props = $props()
+  const deleted = $derived(context.deleted(event))
+  const pending = $derived($thunksByEventId.get(event.id) ?? noThunks)
+  const thunk = $derived($thunks.merge(pending))
 </script>
 
 {#if $deleted}
diff --git a/src/app/feeds.ts b/src/app/feeds.ts
index 96632394..5f063694 100644
--- a/src/app/feeds.ts
+++ b/src/app/feeds.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   addressTags,
   getAddress,
   getCommentFiltersForRoot,
+  getIdOrAddress,
   getReplyFilters,
   hexTags,
   isReplaceableKind,
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ export const makeFeedContext = ({relays}: {relays: string[] | Promise<string[]>}
   const eventsByTarget = new Map<string, TrustedEvent[]>()
   const targetsByEventId = new Map<string, string[]>()
   const subscribersByTarget = new Map<string, Set<(events: TrustedEvent[]) => void>>()
+  const deletedChecks = new Map<string, Set<() => void>>()
 
   const addEvent = (event: TrustedEvent, touched: Set<string>) => {
     // An event seen before its target was tracked stays unfiled, so that adding the target
@@ -86,6 +88,22 @@ export const makeFeedContext = ({relays}: {relays: string[] | Promise<string[]>}
     }
   }
 
+  const notifyDeleted = (added: TrustedEvent[], removed: Set<string>) => {
+    if (deletedChecks.size > 0) {
+      if (removed.size > 0) {
+        for (const checks of deletedChecks.values()) {
+          for (const check of checks) check()
+        }
+      } else {
+        for (const event of added) {
+          for (const check of deletedChecks.get(getIdOrAddress(event)) || []) {
+            check()
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   const notify = (touched: Set<string>) => {
     for (const target of touched) {
       for (const subscriber of subscribersByTarget.get(target) || []) {
@@ -146,6 +164,7 @@ export const makeFeedContext = ({relays}: {relays: string[] | Promise<string[]>}
       }
 
       notify(touched)
+      notifyDeleted(added, removed)
     }),
   )
 
@@ -183,6 +202,29 @@ export const makeFeedContext = ({relays}: {relays: string[] | Promise<string[]>}
 
   return {
     add,
+    deleted: (event: TrustedEvent) =>
+      readable(repository.isDeleted(event), set => {
+        const key = getIdOrAddress(event)
+        const check = () => set(repository.isDeleted(event))
+
+        let checks = deletedChecks.get(key)
+
+        if (!checks) {
+          checks = new Set()
+          deletedChecks.set(key, checks)
+        }
+
+        checks.add(check)
+        check()
+
+        return () => {
+          checks.delete(check)
+
+          if (checks.size === 0) {
+            deletedChecks.delete(key)
+          }
+        }
+      }),
     related: (event: TrustedEvent): Readable<TrustedEvent[]> => {
       add(event)
 
diff --git a/src/app/thunks.ts b/src/app/thunks.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9cffabed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/thunks.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import {derived} from "svelte/store"
+import {pushToMapKey} from "@welshman/lib"
+import {Thunks} from "@welshman/app"
+import type {Thunk} from "@welshman/app"
+import {fromApp} from "@app/core"
+
+let previous = new Map<string, Thunk[]>()
+
+// Publishes indexed by the event they carry.
+//
+// Every row that shows publish status wants the thunks for one event, and each of them filtering
+// the whole history is O(rows × history) on every publish — history only shrinks when a thunk is
+// aborted, so it grows for as long as the session lasts. Indexing once leaves each row a lookup.
+export const thunksByEventId = derived(
+  fromApp($app => $app.use(Thunks).history),
+  $history => {
+    const byId = new Map<string, Thunk[]>()
+
+    for (const thunk of $history) {
+      pushToMapKey(byId, thunk.event.id, thunk)
+    }
+
+    // Hand back the array from last time wherever an event's thunks are unchanged. A row derives
+    // a merged thunk from this, and that merge subscribes to each thunk it holds — rebuilding it
+    // every time anything anywhere publishes churns the object its status components are watching.
+    for (const [id, thunks] of byId) {
+      const before = previous.get(id)
+
+      if (before?.length === thunks.length && before.every((thunk, i) => thunk === thunks[i])) {
+        byId.set(id, before)
+      }
+    }
+
+    previous = byId
+
+    return byId
+  },
+  new Map<string, Thunk[]>(),
+)
+
+// Shared, so a row with nothing in flight keeps the same value across every publish and doesn't
+// rebuild anything downstream
+export const noThunks: Thunk[] = []
diff --git a/src/lib/components/spinner.css b/src/lib/components/spinner.css
index b3e8eeb1..c7507a6e 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/spinner.css
+++ b/src/lib/components/spinner.css
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@
     animation: spinner-spin 0.7s linear infinite;
   }
 
-  /* sizes are standalone (share the element with .spinner, not nested under it)
-     — some call sites use spinner-xs on its own, e.g. ThunkPending */
+  /* sizes share the element with .spinner rather than nesting under it, and only override its
+     dimensions — the shape, colour and animation all come from .spinner, so a size on its own
+     renders as a bordered box */
   .spinner-sm {
     @apply h-4 w-4 border-1;
   }