Joined rooms being labelled as Suggested in Home is misleading

[nadonomy]

Your use case

Rooms you've already joined in Space home are labelled as (i) Suggested which at a glance when orienting around a new space is easy to mis-read as an action being required or expected.

In the room list, we don't have this issue as rooms move from the 'Suggested rooms' section to the 'Rooms' section when you join the room.

Is there a quick fix we can action with immediacy to improve this? E.g. Changing the label to (i) Joined or hiding the (i) Suggested label once a room is joined.

Have you considered any alternatives?

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[niquewoodhouse]

Is there a quick fix we can action with immediacy to improve this? E.g. Changing the label to (i) Joined or hiding the (i) Suggested label once a room is joined.

I think this would be confusing on home as they're not binary (a room can be joined and suggested). As an admin, if we did this, you wouldn't know which room here is suggested if you've joined it - which would make it hard to be an admin. Maybe in the longer term, the way you manage your space's contents is different from how it is now but this fix feels like adding confusion and changes rather than making it simpler.

How about adding a ✅ Joined label to a room/space?

How about adding a ✅ Joined label next to the suggested label?

How about adding a ✅ Joined label when you hover?

Other ideas:

I did consider changing the suggested highlight to be suggested and joined but then you need to add that to everyone thats joined, and it's the only way we say something is suggested, so suggested rooms won't stand out anymore in the list.

[t3chguy]

Any of the above proposals are feasible, would be good to know which one you have most confidence in to go with @niquewoodhouse / @nadonomy

[daniellekirkwood]

@niquewoodhouse having watched a user struggle with this last week my preference is Option 2: "How about adding a ✅ Joined label next to the suggested label?"

This solution is applicable when the user is an admin as the use case there is: "I am an admin of a space and want to be able to see which rooms are marked as suggested when i invite people to my space." Most admins of a space will likely be a member of all suggested rooms...

There's another use case: "I am joining a space and want to know which rooms I should join". Do you think the "[v]Joined" label works for this use case too, or should we remove "Suggested" from the rooms in this use case?

[niquewoodhouse]

There's another use case: "I am joining a space and want to know which rooms I should join". Do you think the "[v]Joined" label works for this use case too, or should we remove "Suggested" from the rooms in this use case?

I personally think, in this case, the suggested label is not helpful, once the person has joined. But its helpful before that.

So there are two views to change in this proposal:

If admin:

If not admin: