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matrix-org / matrix.to

A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix
http://matrix.to
Apache License 2.0
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inconsistent semantics for how to "access" a user #22

Open uhoreg opened 7 years ago

uhoreg commented 7 years ago

In a user link, (e.g. https://matrix.to/#/@uhoreg:matrix.org), matrix.to lists a link for Riot such as https://riot.im/app/#/user/@uhoreg:matrix.org, which will show the user's profile, whereas for the other clients it says to type "/invite @uhoreg:matrix.org", which will invite the user to the room.

Since different clients may support different actions for users, and clients may support multiple possible actions, so it may be good to list multiple ways of interacting with the user and a description of what it does, such as:

Name ... Access @uhoreg:matrix.org .
Riot ... View profile https://riot.im/app/#/user/@uhoreg:matrix.org
. ... Start chat (something once vector-im/riot-web#4034 is fixed)
. ... Invite to a room Type /invite @uhoreg:matrix.org
WeeChat ... Invite to a room Type /invite @uhoreg:matrix.org
etc...

It might also be useful to be able to add a parameter to the matrix.to link to specify a certain action. For example, something like https://matrix.to/#/@uhoreg:matrix.org?action=chat would mean that someone clicking on the link should start a chat with @uhoreg:matrix.org. (cf. XEP-0147)

pafcu commented 6 years ago

vector-im/riot-web#4034 was fixed some time ago. Probably it would make sense to make action=chat the default.