If inviting a user fails, user is shown a cryptic 'Failure to create room' error.

[ara4n]

I was testing ILAG on my local HS, which is not federated. It tried to invite riot-bot which failed with a 502 (not unreasonably), bubbling up a "Failure to create room" error. However, it then ditched me and didn't let me complete the flow to actually fill in the 'start chat' or 'create room' dialogs.

[lukebarnard1]

This is expected, the only situation in which you should expect your intention before being a PWLU to be carried forward is when joining

[ara4n]

it's still a very cryptic error though...

[lukebarnard1]

Agreed, but this is quite orthogonal to ILAG and could be improved for invites in general.

[lampholder]

Can we categorise this as "Failed invites should give better feedback than 'failure to create room' error", or something similar?

[lampholder]

Modifying the title, classifying as a bug and booting out of ILAG.

[lampholder]

P2 minor because (if I understand this correctly) this will only affect people who:

• use a riot instance they don't host (and hence can't reconfigure the welcomeUserId setting in config.json)
• to connect to a home server that can't federate with matrix.org

[ara4n]

It is an awful experience for people who are running riot on a new non-fed HS though.

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[aaronraimist]

Error message looks like this

You also still get an empty room even though the error message is failure to create room...

[abeluck]

It is an awful experience for people who are running riot on a new non-fed HS though.
So true :(

This is still present in the redesign branch fwiw.

Edit: And in some ways it is worse in the redesign, after registering, the app hangs with a gray screen and static spinner for upwards of a minute or so, before throwing the error message. Most of my test users just refreshed the page, other thought it was broken.

[t3chguy]

You also still get an empty room even though the error message is failure to create room...

That's matrix-org/synapse#8625 / matrix-org/synapse#8895