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Changing URL does not change to the new video call

Open reivilibre opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Steps to reproduce

  1. Join a call
  2. Quit the call using the hang up button
  3. Copy a new call URL to the address bar and navigate to it

Outcome

What did you expect?

The application should present me some user interface to join the call.

What happened instead?

The application remains on the call ended screen.

Operating system

Linux

Browser information

Firefox

URL for webapp

call.element.io

Will you send logs?

No

reivilibre avatar Nov 07 '23 15:11 reivilibre

We've found that this is because the state which determines which stage of the call you're in (lobby, in-call view, hangup screen) is retained when you switch calls from the URL bar like this. Perhaps we could fix this when messing around with our routing code as we upgrade to React Router 6.

robintown avatar Jan 19 '24 15:01 robintown