Need UI to improve discoverability of bridged users

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Need UI to improve discoverability of bridged users #1259

Open matrixbot opened 8 years ago

matrixbot commented 8 years ago

Created by @ matthew:matrix.org.

ara4n commented 8 years ago

I suggest we expand RoomDirectory somehow to make this clear. suggestions welcome. @AmandineLP? The idea is to somehow spell out how to join #freenode#foo:matrix.org style channels without having to magically know that #freenode... works.

AmandineLP commented 8 years ago

If you're ready to go for a fully user-friendly UI I'd suggest a "Join an IRC channel" button, which would:

either reveal a field at the top of the directory page where people wan enter/select the network name which prepopulates a text in front of the field where they can enter the channel name.
or displays 2 fields (maybe in a popup): network name & room name, press ok ==> channel is accessed.

Second option is probably the nicest

ara4n commented 8 years ago

Turning this into the official issue to track the design process for fixing this.

Suggestion is that on the new 'start direct chat' and 'join/create room' UI that comes out of vector-im/element-web#1882, we give the user the ability to distinguish identifying 'remote' users and rooms they might want to either talk to or join.

In the simplest case, this could be a dropdown on the respective 'start direct chat' and 'join/create room' UIs to identify the network you are trying to locate the user or room on: e.g. "IRC (Freenode)", "Email", "Slack (ribot)", "Slack (matrix)", "Matrix", "XMPP", etc. There would be the option to search all visible networks. Inviting someone by email then just becomes a type of identifying someone.

Similar UI could also be useful when inviting users into existing rooms.

ara4n commented 8 years ago

Before I forget - in discussing this last week with @antikewl, the conclusions were:

Don't add a new dropdown for 'start DM' invites
Instead, have a button to link to Scalar to manage the bridges available for locating users
...and include in the autocomplete options, users on the various networks. E.g. typing "trevor ribot" would offer autocomplete suggestion of @ trevor on ribot.slack.com. If the remote directory can be spidered, then it'd include spider results too.

We don't have a conclusion on how to handle remote bridged rooms when trying to join a room via directory.

ara4n commented 8 years ago

We don't have a contact lookup API yet that will support this autocomplete, so for now let's implement it without bridged lookup.

antikewl commented 8 years ago

For reference. chat people 2a invite modal https://zpl.io/1iXBEQ

chat people 2c invite modal https://zpl.io/1iXBEQ

ara4n commented 8 years ago

keeping this open to track the bridged-aware aspects of it.

ara4n commented 7 years ago

see vector-im/element-web#2934

lampholder commented 7 years ago

Experimenting linking this riot-web issue with a meta-issue to track the feature across web, ios and android - vector-im/riot-meta/issues/1

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

Since pills have been introduced, maybe review this issue …

t3chguy commented 7 years ago

Pills don't really help you to see people that are connected via a bridge. Flair from groups maybe