Direct links to users lead to confused / broken state

[anoadragon453]

Description

Lots of people use matrix.to links on their contact page as their way of saying "Contact me on Matrix!". After the redesign, these links, such as https://riot.im/app/#/user/@andrewm:amorgan.xyz lead to a blank and empty page.

This happens whether you're logged in or not.

Steps to reproduce

• Click a direct user link such as https://riot.im/app/#/user/@andrewm:amorgan.xyz
• Get a blank and unhelpful page

[ara4n]

it's worse than this - i think /user links are broken even if you are logged in. I could have sworn i'd filed a bug for this but can't find it now. E.g. https://riot.im/develop/#/user/@matthew:matrix.org (once logged in) doesn't show the MemberInfo.

[anoadragon453]

Yikes, indeed. Edited.

[jryans]

Yes, seems likes a duplicate of #8642, but this now has more info and labels. I'll close that one in favor of this.

[jryans]

Originally posted by @bwindels in #8642 (comment):

I sort of assumed this wasn't used anymore during the room header refactoring, my bad.

How should this look though, like before, shoved in the right panel with the middle panel empty?

[jryans]

Fixed by matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#2666

[anoadragon453]

Looks good!