diff --git a/src/agent/network.ts b/src/agent/network.ts
index 6f953812..129aa2f3 100644
--- a/src/agent/network.ts
+++ b/src/agent/network.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ const listen = ({relays, filter, onChunk = null, shouldProcess = true}) => {
   })
 }
 
-const load = ({relays, filter, onChunk = null, shouldProcess = true, timeout = 6000}) => {
+const load = ({relays, filter, onChunk = null, shouldProcess = true, timeout = 10_000}) => {
   return new Promise(resolve => {
     const now = Date.now()
     const done = new Set()
diff --git a/src/util/misc.ts b/src/util/misc.ts
index 782b9356..feaeb81a 100644
--- a/src/util/misc.ts
+++ b/src/util/misc.ts
@@ -149,13 +149,15 @@ export const getLastSync = (k, fallback = 0) => {
 export class Cursor {
   until: number
   limit: number
-  constructor(limit = 50) {
+  constructor(limit = 10) {
     this.until = now()
     this.limit = limit
   }
   getFilter() {
     return {
-      until: this.until,
+      // Add a buffer so we can avoid blowing past the most relevant time interval
+      // (just now) until after a few paginations.
+      until: this.until + timedelta(3, 'hours'),
       // since: this.until - timedelta(8, 'hours'),
       limit: this.limit,
     }
@@ -166,12 +168,13 @@ export class Cursor {
     // There are various edge cases:
     // - When we have zero events, there's nothing we can do, presumably we have everything.
     // - Sometimes relays send us extremely old events. Use median to avoid too-large gaps
-    if (events.length > 1) {
+    if (events.length > this.limit) {
       const timestamps = sortBy(identity, pluck('created_at', events))
       const gaps = aperture(2, timestamps).map(([a, b]) => b - a)
-      const gap = quantile(gaps, 0.1)
+      const gap = quantile(gaps, 0.2)
 
-      this.until -= Math.round(gap * events.length)
+      // Only paginate part of the way so we can avoid missing stuff
+      this.until -= Math.round(gap * events.length * 0.5)
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/views/notes/Feed.svelte b/src/views/notes/Feed.svelte
index 6c75dcaa..821c7148 100644
--- a/src/views/notes/Feed.svelte
+++ b/src/views/notes/Feed.svelte
@@ -52,7 +52,10 @@
     })
 
     // Show replies grouped by parent whenever possible
-    return mergeParents(combined)
+    const merged = mergeParents(combined)
+
+    // Drop the oldest 20% of notes since we often get pretty old stuff
+    return merged.slice(0, Math.ceil(merged.length * 0.8))
   }
 
   const loadBufferedNotes = () => {
diff --git a/src/views/person/Likes.svelte b/src/views/person/Likes.svelte
index b642f0d2..87bb4402 100644
--- a/src/views/person/Likes.svelte
+++ b/src/views/person/Likes.svelte
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@
   const shouldDisplay = e => isLike(e.content)
 </script>
 
-<Feed {relays} {filter} {shouldDisplay} parentsTimeout={3000} />
+<Feed {relays} {filter} {shouldDisplay} parentsTimeout={10_000} />