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There are two ways to invite people, reaching them is too complicated and the difference is not clear enough #15622

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Yoric opened this issue Oct 31, 2020 · 0 comments
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A-Invite A-User-Search The start DM or invite to room dialogs (things dealing with `/user_directory/search`) T-Enhancement

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Yoric commented Oct 31, 2020

Description

Let's say I'd like to invite someone to join me in an existing chat.

Current UX

I have two possibilities:

  1. Click on Room Info.
  2. Click on Share Room.
  3. Be greeted with

Sharing

  1. At this stage, I have no clue that there's another way to invite people and it's not clear what I can do with the link.
  2. If I already have an account and paste the link, it works, but it's needlessly complicated.

OR

  1. Click on Room Info.
  2. Click on N People.
  3. Click on Invite to this room.
  4. Be greeted with

Invite

  1. At this stage, I pretty much know how to invite people and I see that there is another way to share the room. However, I have no clue about the difference between invite and sharing.

The problems

  1. Sharing is easy to discover but harder to use.
  2. Invite is somewhat hidden although it is the more convenient feature in many cases.
  3. There is a large overlap between these two paths.

An idea

  1. Have a very visible share button (probably with the icon universally used for sharing), either close to search/notifications/room info or within room info.
  2. Display something along the lines of

Screenshot 2020-10-31 at 10 07 28

@jryans jryans removed the Z-UI/UX label Mar 8, 2021
@MadLittleMods MadLittleMods added the A-User-Search The start DM or invite to room dialogs (things dealing with `/user_directory/search`) label Sep 2, 2022
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