Open Infrastructure

Riot web / general¶

• remove the separation tab of Direct Messages and Rooms -> this damages readability
  • An option to disable all categories might do this
  • Adding to this: scrolling inside the groups can be very painful and fields are often too small
• disable color differentiation for each user name: make them all same, muted color.
  • Afaics this refers to the avatar - maybe an option to disable avatars all together
• Numbers of unread messages on channels are not helpful
  • Proposed solution: Indicate unread by bold only, remove the number count
• When creating a new public room the "room alias" field is empty and needs to be filled in manually
  • This should be automatically derived from the name as a suggestion
• When inviting people to a room, local people (@xx:ungleich.ch) show up for a second and then vanish until I type the full name
  • i.e. typing @xx - shows the name, I want to select it, it vanishes
  • other people from other matrix servers are shown as suggested
  • then finishing @xx:ungleich.ch shows it again
  • Solution: don't make it show and vanish, but keep it
• Too much margin between text groups damage readability
  • While chatting, the vertical spaces between texts are too high and waste space.
  • The horizonal space between profile picture and the name is too wide, makes it harder for eyes to coherently follow who wrote what.
  • Time of writing is not shown by default and only reveals on mouseover, requires extra movement for catching information.
  • Having to jump big spaces between different information (who wrote it what, when) makes it hard for the eyes to focus.
• It is "impossible" to delete a room
  • There is no delete button
  • There seems to be a workaround to kick all users, make it non joinable (how?) and leave it
    • untested
  • Very basic functionality seems to be missing
• When creating a new room and inviting users, nick autocompletion when writing a message does not work
  • This only works when invited users joined
  • This is very limiting/confusing, as one might want to write already messages for the people who join eventually
  • Even if they don't join, the autocomplete should be able to reference people who are invited
• When writing in "direct chat", nick auto completion of OTHER users I write to does not work
  • Use case: "Did you talk to @s..." -- does not autocomplete
  • Suggestion: have a general auto completion, independent of the room I am writing in
• Selecting auto completion of users is easier in mattermost:
  • mattermost shows a list and allows to finish by <tab> or <enter>
  • matrix requires arrow up or clicking
• There is not emoticon selection list for regular messages
  • However there is one for reactions
  • This is a bit inconsistent and confuses -> should be consistently available
• Room classifications (low, favorite, etc.) seem to be CLIENT specific
  • Opening the browser on a different computer gives an old/different room view
  • Causes a lot of extra work for organising, i.e. x times for x devices
• Sometimes the members are shown instead of the room title in the room list (???)
  • See attachment to this ticket
• Mattermost has a "thread view" where one can show all messages in a thread
  • it only appears if you click on the reply button next to one of the messages in the thread
  • it is quite convenient to show old threads
• Inconsistent scroll bar behaviour
  • left/right are different
  • https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/12328
    • https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/983
• When being in an empty room (i.e. for sharing messages with yourself) a warning repeats
  • "There's no one else here! Would you like to invite others or stop warning about the empty room?"
  • Even clicking "stop warning" the messages comes back (different device, different browser)
    • Where are those settings saved?
• Cannot search for parts of an URL
  • Specifically "https://support.ungleich.ch/Ticket/Display.html?id=X", searching for X returns results in mattermost, but not matrix
  • Where is search located at in matrix? Server? Client?
• When editing a multi line message, cursor up at some point goes into editing the PREVIOUS message
  • When not having text to be sent inside the text field for sending messages, this behaviour makes sense
  • However as soon as there is text in the text bar, it should not move up to previous messages anymore
• Shields are inconsistent (riot-web 1.6.0)
  • In 1:1 rooms the shields (black/green) appear, even if room is not encrypted
  • In n people rooms shields are not displayed next to the participants

RiotX¶

• Notifications are by default for EVERY message
  • https://github.com/vector-im/riotX-android/issues/1105