Archive shouldn't have jump links into the future - You can't view the history of a room on a future day error

[Miepee]

When viewing the current day of messages, the page still has a jump link to the next activity in the room. This means it's very easy to to run into the You can't view the history of a room on a future day error by just clicking the jump link in the UI.

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As discussed in Matrix Public Archive room

[MadLittleMods]

Thanks for reporting this foot-gun scenario @Miepee!

We could go with the simple solution of simply not showing the next activity jump link. But this could also be a little more nuanced since you can leave a tab open until the day rolls over and perhaps you do want to jump then.

Or it's still the same day and you just want to refresh the page to see new content.

Perhaps when viewing the current day, we could go with a simple solution where the next activity summary tile would just say: "Refresh the page to see new content ⏩". Although I wish the phrasing could encompass the fact that there might not be new content and we don't know.

[Miepee]

Personally like the "Refresh the page" idea.

[bkil]

Hitting this exception by a user unintentionally is really scary and probably not very good for SEO either. Could we perhaps improve how this error condition is presented even?

But also, matrix-static hid the paging button and replaced it with the following text in such a case:

There are no newer messages yet.

I could hardly imagine people keeping the same page on matrix-archive open for days as a substitute for running a matrix client, but if this is a use case to cover, we could include a different kind of conditional link, such as:

There are no newer messages as of 13:37. [Check for newer messages] 🔃

Pressing that button could result in one of:

• The same text (with updated time of refresh)
• The same view of the day if there are new messages that day, but with an anchor link in the URL to the first new message so that the browser will jump on it as per Use URL hash fragment anchor for message permalink, add id attribute of message to jump on it #238
• The view of the next day that includes the next message (may be several days in the future)

Related: #245

[MadLittleMods]

There are no newer messages as of 13:37. [Check for newer messages] 🔃

@bkil This sounds like another decent option to me 👍

Some combination with "Refresh the page to see new content ⏩" is probably the way forward.