UX: Enabling flair is hard

[turt2live]

Description

Almost everyone I've seen create a group has struggled with getting flair enabled. Most people expect that when they create/join a group, it'll automatically flair them up it seems. Further, people aren't looking in the user settings to publish said flair - they're waiting for it to magically happen.

I'm not sure how to solve the UX problem though. Maybe it's as simple as a default on setting for "Enable flair when I join/create a group"?

Version information

• Platform: web (in-browser)
• Browser: Chrome 63
• OS: Windows 10
• URL: riot.im/develop

[lampholder]

Yeah, it's a shame this is proving tricky.

A default on setting to 'enable flair on join/create group' sounds good if that makes the system more usable for relatively little effort.

We might instead consider a confirmation box when joining a group (since this is expected to be a relatively infrequent action) asking users whether they want to show a group's flair on join - this could also default to 'on'.

[Avamander]

Just encountered this, I have to say it's not very intuitive. The very least it could be a nice prompt.

[novocaine]

Wont fix - this is specific to communities, deprecated in favour of spaces.