Bring back the hs_url parameter and document it

[uhoreg]

which was added in matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#716 but doesn't seem to be documented anywhere

[uhoreg]

to clarify, this is about being able to do things like https://riot.im/#/register?hs_url=matrix.whatever, and not about the config.json parameters

[dagwieers]

Why not contribute a PR with exactly what you expect ?

[aaronraimist]

Is this option broken in 0.17.9?

[t3chguy]

Yes #9908

[aaronraimist]

@t3chguy this one had more thumbs so maybe this should turn into the fix hs_url issue

[t3chguy]

Sure.

[t3chguy]

Taking over #9908

[okias]

Would be really great to have it fixed.

[melroy89]

I can't agree more, especially if matrix want to become more decentralized and more federated.

Example link (it still doesn't work):
https://app.element.io/?hs_url=https://matrix.melroy.org#/login

[bwindels]

I wonder if phishing is a concern here as well,
getting people to try and log in on a malicious homeserver

[benjaoming]

Definitely voting for this, no worries about phishing, this is a big show stopper for federation, as it makes users sign up to matrix.org and creates a lot of manually supported mess.

It also leads to this wrong behavior:

1. Create an invite link for a Room
2. Follow the link in private browser session
3. Click "Sign Up"
4. Observe that we went from looking at the home server in step 2 to signing up on "matrix.org" in step 3.

The behavior needs to be implemented so it goes into this flow, too?

[binarymaster]

Out of curiosity I have tried to change the link to this:

https://app.element.io/#/login&hs_url=https://matrix.melroy.org (notice the hs part goes after the hash, not part of URL query)

And for some reason it makes Element hang on loading, no matter what homeserver is specified.

[timmc]

Yeah, I've found that the lack of this is a serious usability problem for the people I've invited to chat on my server. After they register they go to element.io and then they have to do a complicated little dance and pay attention to terminology that's new to them ("homeserver") in order to sign in properly.

[PxBCPG]

how is it going?

[Babalion]

Hey guys,

in my opinion it shouldn't be that difficult to plug in a string from an url-parameter...
It would be nice for the initial user experience to have this feature working!

Maybe I am able to create a pull request but i am completely new to the element development.
Where exactly is this thing handled? Which files does one have to change?

Thanks!

[benjaoming]

@Babalion that sounds great, but a suggestion is already up in a PR, you could help out there? #17824

[alexander-potemkin]

It's a thing working on iOS, guess it makes perfect sense from the user perspective to have things working unified across the platforms.