Signing-in from a room URL does not redirect to said URL when signed in

[nchevobbe]

Description

if I click the https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#devtools:mozilla.org URL and I don't have an account, after signing-in, I'm redirected to https://chat.mozilla.org.

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I'd expect to be redirected to the room URL. It would be important for our contributors who are not used to Riot to directly arrive in the right room.

Version information

• Platform: web (in-browser)
• Browser: Firefox 74
• OS: macOS
• URL: https://chat.mozilla.org

[jryans]

Thanks for the feedback! I agree this would greatly help with onboarding new people into a specific community.

[jryans]

I guess there's a bit of design challenge, as we currently show the "Riot Bot" user first for a new account to intro bits of Riot.

We would need to somehow also remember the room of interest as well.

[jryans]

We have since removed Riot Bot, so this may now be easier to achieve.

[t3chguy]

So this issue is actually SSO specific, we don't pass the fragment as SSO callback arg.
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/blob/7e996cb91c9d6af8bfffd1782b51c6bff75075da/src/BasePlatform.js#L172