1111700 - If network delays or other issues occur while creating a room, user gets no feedback at all

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Hello (Loop) :: Client, defect, P1)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

A simple way to reproduce one case of this is to simply turn off your Wifi or unplug your network and then drop the panel down and click "Start Conversation".  The panel closes, and no other behavior is visible.

The case where the client code decides there is an actual error is already covered by 1109149.  

In the cases where there's just network congestion and things are slow, the user should (at the very least) see some sort of progress indicator, and be in a position to either retry or simply give up.

We could consider keeping the panel open and having a spinning progress indicator in a dimmed out room entry, perhaps.

Comment 1

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

I'm not sure I would hard-block on this (so I've made it a P2), but I would definitely love to get this into Fx35.  It's currently at the top of my P2s for Fx35.  I'll add it to the trello.

Comment 2

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Actually, now that I've had a chance to think about it.  I think we need to do something.  Let's make this bug about doing something basic with the intent of uplifting it into Fx35 and then file follow up bugs to improve the behavior in future releases.

Comment 3

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Mark -- Would it make sense for you to take this since you're already taking bug 1109149?

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8) (afk until 21st July)]

I've fixed this in bug 1109151.