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We have lift-off but we're not making it past the lower atmosphere ... Was the Android version flow-tested by anyone at all at element.io? When I tried regist
by virtualritz 2y ago
We have lift-off but we're not making it past the lower atmosphere ...
Was the Android version flow-tested by anyone at all at element.io?
When I tried registering a new account, it did not accept my handle. I guessed this because the handle text was red.
But why it didn't like it I can't see because the little box with the error message is outside to the right of the screen (I guess there is a box because I see a little arrow on the right and I understand that this just a web view of something not originally designed for mobile/portrait).
Basically, if this was my ma or any of my non-techie friends, they would close the app now without ever registering.
After I login with my existing account and verify the device via my Linux client it asks me to enter a "recovery key or security phrase".
I enter my security phrase, I get a spinner, the spinner disappears, the 'Continue' button is grayed out. Nothing happens.
These are both flows that (a) a new user would see or (b) an existing user would see, immediately when using the app for the first time.
How is it possible they're broken like this?
- ailurooo 2y agoi can't believe anyone would pay money for their product. It's alpha grade software through and through. Once a large enough company loses enough data through a encryption miss-step or federation issue they're going to pivot off of this product and move on.
- Arathorn 2y agoThe registration flow on matrix.org was a last minute sprint to get something that works there, given we haven't finished the OIDC migration for matrix.org migration. It landed 4 days ago here: https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/pull/3467 https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/pull/3467 and while we tried to QA it on a range of devices & OSes I'm not surprised we missed some. The good news is that it can be easily improved serverside given it's "just" a helper webapp which is doing the registration flow. Sorry you got bitten by this. I'd be very interested if you can compare it with the flow if you specify beta.matrix.org as the homeserver.
- Arathorn 2y agoThis has now already been fixed: https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-react-sdk/pull/62 https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-react-sdk/pull/62.