element-web: Room names are calculated incorrectly
Description
Alright, that looks like a riot-web bug, then. They are not following the spec by not ignoring alt_aliases
https://github.com/Sorunome/mx-puppet-slack/issues/50 https://github.com/Sorunome/mx-puppet-slack/issues/72
Steps to reproduce
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Describe how what happens differs from what you expected.
Logs being sent: yes/no
Version information
- Platform: web and desktop
For the web app:
- Browser: Chrome Version 83.0.4103.61 (Official Build) (64-bit)
- OS: macOS 10.15.4
- URL: https://riot.trust2core.rocks/ v1.6.2
For the desktop app:
- OS: macOS 10.15.4
- Version: 1.6.2
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 4 years ago
- Reactions: 3
- Comments: 25 (12 by maintainers)
Agreed, I’d really like to see movement on this. Right now the Slack puppet bridge is basically unusable for me due to the broken group chat names that are a consequence of this issue.
Right, but the mobile apps made the decision autonomously and it may be undesirable, so product has to make the decision which all Riot clients should follow
Moderators, but yes. The challenge is that they are expected to be on different servers which can more easily change where they point without ability to update them, leading to inaccuracies. It’s a similar problem with the canonical alias, though much less likely (as it’d only drift in the case of abuse or server admin action).
There’s also a theory that if you want your room name to match the
alt_aliases, you should make one of them canonical.