Perform connection test after selecting server (matrix.org can get blocked)

[nisbet-hubbard]

Steps to reproduce

Where are you starting? What can you see?

The startup screen. In a geography where matrix.org is blocked.

What do you click?

’Continue’

Outcome

What did you expect?

The server selection screen should be shown first, before any connection test is performed on a server selected by user (this is the workflow in FluffyChat).

If a connection test must be done before a server is selected, do it on a domain known to not have been blocked anywhere instead of matrix.org.

What happened instead?

Frozen screen with a spinner saying ‘Loading’ continued for half a minute before the next screen eventually loaded.

This tends to make unsuspecting users believe that the whole app is getting blocked, and give up before the next screen has a chance to load. In reality, it’s only individual homeservers that can ever get blocked. Which is why Matrix is such a blessing for people living under authoritarian regimes: if one doesn’t need to reply on one centralised server, no govt will manage to block (or even find) all the homeservers in order to render a Matrix client unusable.

Your phone model

iPhone SE2

Operating system version

iOS 16.3.1

Application version

1.1.1

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

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Fixed by #3316 (and seemingly had a dupe issue)