Don't easily let people ignoring themselves, or alert them if it's so.

[grinapo]

It took me considerable time, effort and @tulir'ing to realise that I have, hopefully accidentally, ignored myself.

It is profoundly confusing: I don't see my sent messages while they are sent, there is no error in console (why would there...), people answering me but I don't see them quoting me... etc. Everything is fine and dandy according to the logs and traffic except - it doesn't work.

I can't say there isn't a case when someone want to deliberately ignore him/her/itself, but I dare to say it should only be done along a big warning, or, actually, there should be a red top warning about the user being ignoring self, since it's actully almost impossible to figure out (especially if you have never ignored anyone).

Version information

• Platform: web (in-browser) or desktop?

Possibly all, but was noticed on the web client, v1.5.8

[jryans]

@grinapo How did you ignore yourself? Self-ignoring is hidden in user info at least, so did you use /ignore?

[grinapo]

@grinapo How did you ignore yourself? Self-ignoring is hidden in user info at least, so did you use /ignore?

Definitely not. Also, I can't tell you how since I was not aware of it.

I am using riotweb and riotX-dev, and any of those may have done it. I suspect riotX but I don't have enough proof for the accusation.

[t3chguy]

If anything this should be a Synapse issue so that Synapse prevents ignoring yourself.
Synapse is the thing filtering out those users based on the account_data list: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0#m-ignored-user-list

[erkinalp]

@t3chguy Client change is also required, as Labs ignores (the one using policy rooms) are implemented client-side.

[erkinalp]

Still not solved client-side.

[Half-Shot]

Fixed in element-hq/synapse#18508. Clients may wish to do their own checks for better error-ing, but at least this is now impossible to do.