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remove invite button from chat screen #3094
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I don't understand why it was added. It is taking a lot attention but is by far not a primary action, not even an important or often used action, when using the room for a while. Why are we asking/pressuring people to invite people to all their groups chats constantly? I find that button pretty intense were it is and can't find any reasoning, let alone a pro-con discussion about doing this. If there isn't, I'd argue to remove it without replacement.
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kumarpalsinh25 commentedon Jun 12, 2025
It was based on the discussion on Monday Meeting. @emilvincentz feature request about the same. Happy to revert it back.
emilvincentz commentedon Jun 12, 2025
@gnunicorn I dont have a problem of making it more subtle, but fact is that we frequently get feedback from users that inviting people is not easy.
Right now when you create a chat, you have to click on the chat menu, but people dont seem to know that,-
Acter is getting even more useful as more people use it, so we want to make it super easy for people to get their peers into their groups.
I very strongly disagree removing without any replacement
gnunicorn commentedon Jun 17, 2025
And you are certain this is because they can't find the button? Despite it being the same path and position as in WhatsApp, which is even more prominent than in Signal.
But then the solution is to have a post-creation invite-flow similar as we have with spaces, no? (Which I think we had already agreed to doing but it might have slipped through the cracks)
No one argues against that. But this solution is overkill and against many other of our goals - most notably Great Chat.
To me, neither of these are good arguments to constantly showing a big (ugly) button on the top right in every chat I have the permissions to invite someone to ...