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Invalid alias format message is useless #7376

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ssbarnea opened this issue Sep 21, 2018 · 3 comments
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Invalid alias format message is useless #7376

ssbarnea opened this issue Sep 21, 2018 · 3 comments

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@ssbarnea
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When someone is trying to add a room alias, they will get a "Invalid alias format", one message that does not include any cloue regarding what would count as a valid alias format, neither a link to a web page that would document the "format".

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lampholder commented Sep 24, 2018

Slightly related to #7372 (in which I gripe about the term alias being used at all).

This UX:
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should be modified such that you:

  • don't need to type in the non-optional components of a room alias (the leading # and the trailing :domain.tld)
  • get feedback when you try and type an illegal character (perhaps something like http://jsfiddle.net/5ocu2cqk/20/ , though I know people have strong feelings about UX that just refuses to accept your invalid keypresses [as opposed to acceptiong them and then highlighting that they are invalid])

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p1 'cause if we're tackling #7372 and really want to encourage people to set aliases, we'll be more successful if the UX for creating an alias is helpful rather than annoying.

@turt2live
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I think we fixed this with the new alias UX

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