Provide a way to get back to home screen easily during first session

[daniellekirkwood]

The Home screen is important to new users - how do we provide a way back to it easily? (Today, once you've started or joined a room it's hard to find it again)

@niquewoodhouse Is there something we can provide in-prod that gives easy access back to "home" for new users? We may have to consider if this impacts all users or not... One way @kittykat suggested was to have the home screen show up when a user clicks on Home meta-space. WDYT?

[t3chguy]

The Welcome screen btw is the one before sign-in/registration

https://app.element.io/#/welcome

Do you mean the Home screen https://app.element.io/#/home ?

[germain-gg]

I believe what Danielle refers to here is the page that you land on right after you have successfully logged in Element.

@niquewoodhouse & @daniellekirkwood could I direct your attention to matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#7409 as providing a bit of guidance there will likely fix this issue.

[daniellekirkwood]

I believe what Danielle refers to here is the page that you land on right after you have successfully logged in Element.

Yes

@niquewoodhouse & @daniellekirkwood could I direct your attention to matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#7409 as providing a bit of guidance there will likely fix this issue.

Then we'd have 2 different home buttons that have different actions? Or would the Space Home and the Home in the drop down go to the same place?

[aaronraimist]

Then we'd have 2 different home buttons that have different actions? Or would the Space Home and the Home in the drop down go to the same place?

@daniellekirkwood The 2 different Home buttons that perform different actions already exists. The one in the drop down is currently only visible on instances with a custom home page like https://chat.mozilla.org and https://webchat.kde.org though which is why you may not be aware of it.

The PR currently proposes making the drop down Home button visible to all users which does highlight that existing confusing UI. I'm completely open to using a different name and/or icon for one of them if you have suggestions.

[daniellekirkwood]

Thanks, @aaronraimist
It works for me for now - we might change the language later but I think it's better to have something...

Let's see what @niquewoodhouse adds :)