Confusing "invite to space by email" behaviour when no identity server set

[afranke]

Steps to reproduce

In a public space which I created, I click the Invite button, then type in an email address.

What happened?

I got the following error:

Operating system

Fedora 34

Browser information

Firefox 92

URL for webapp

app.element.io

Homeserver

matrix.org

Have you submitted a rageshake?

No

[kittykat]

Apparently updated templates for sydent were deployed earlier today (invites over email should now note whether you were invited to a room or a space) so probably related

[clokep]

@kittykat @afranke Could you try this again? A couple members of the backend team looked into this and it seems everything is working from our side (and our tests worked fine).

[afranke]

Retried, got the same error as above.

[afranke]

When retrying again after I cleared the cache, I actually took the time to read the UI and

tells me I need an identity server (and I don’t have one for this account). So that’s fair… but it should be more obvious that it won’t work.

Please:

• prevent me from “sending invites” if it’s not actually going to send invites
• make the “identity server” words a link to an explanation of what it is and a way to add one.