Room list filter UI should give you feedback if the all_rooms list is not up-to-date.

[ara4n]

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch the app after being offline for a while (so SS has expired)
2. Immediately try to search for a room
3. Room may not be returned in the room list, because the all_rooms SS list has yet to update.
4. The user has no idea that the room list search results are incomplete

Therefore, we should show some kind of UI to warn the user if the room list search results are partial, so they know to wait until the all-rooms list has updated - e.g. a spinner row in the results.

Outcome

What did you expect?

To be warned if room list filter results are partial

What happened instead?

No warning; just rooms failed to turn up until i waited a few seconds and tried again.

Your phone model

No response

Operating system version

No response

Application version

257

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

[ara4n]

this isn't that uncommon - it happens for every user every time they foreground the app after being offline for >30 minutes, and will affect any room searches done until all_rooms has synced up again. (With the room cache you'll get stale results returned at least). It will also happen 100% for every user on a fresh login.

[VolkerJunginger]

We will have a look at the UI feedback for synching with the room-list filters https://github.com/element-hq/element-internal/issues/349

[ara4n]

this bug still exists, and hasn't been fixed, and still causes problems: for instance, right now, we have anecdotal reports of room search not returning room items. We don't know if this is because the roomlist is stale, or if the app thinks the roomlist is up-to-date and something else has gone wrong.

In other words, we still need some mechanism which tells you, when you search, if it's searching incomplete state or not. The normal idiom would be to put a spinner in the search results to let you know it's showing you an incomplete search result.