Improve invite workflow

[Yoric]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

I'd like to be able to invite friends using SMS, WhatsApp, email, IRC, Signal, etc.

Why would you like to it?

Because so far, 100% of my attempts to invite non-Matrix-users to chat with me have failed and I had to help my friends and family get started. Compare to e.g. Discord in which invites are confusing but basically work. I want my friends and family to use Matrix :)

How would you like to achieve it?

At the moment, if I click "invite", I can either:

• invite by Matrix;
• invite by e-mail;
• share, which can be copied&pasted but doesn't work for private rooms.

I would prefer:

• invite by Matrix;
• invite by QR Code;
• invite by link, which copies into the clipboard a link valid for e.g. 72h and that I can next copy and paste anywhere I want.

Have you considered any alternatives?

So far, it's a missing feature. I can invite by email but there's no path that I could find for other invitation methods.

Additional context

No response

[robintown]

Duplicate of element-hq/element-meta#573