Option to skip welcome page

[yesennes]

Is your suggestion related to a problem? Please describe.
I am setting up a private server and would like users to be able to log in as quickly as possible. I don't need a welcome page explaining what riot and matrix are.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like a server wide config option that if true takes the user to the log in page whenever it would take them to the welcome page, i.e. whenever a unauthenticated users goes to the main page or any room's url, or logs out.

Describe alternatives you've considered
It would be sufficient to redirect unauthenticated users to the login page whenever they go to and address like #/home or #/roomid.

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

[t3chguy]

the homepage can be already disabled in config.json

[yesennes]

I am having trouble finding that option. I tried setting embeddedPages.welcomeUrl to "/#/login" and "login.html" but that gives me a couldn't load page error.

[t3chguy]

Null should do it.

[turt2live]

There's not currently an option to skip the welcome page. You can change the welcome page content, but if you set the setting to null or something like that it will just default to the built-in page. Edit welcome.html to do a redirect in the meantime.

[yesennes]

That works but causes awkward flashing. Scripts I write in the welcome page don't seem to run either. I can add a config option a make a merge request if you want.

[turt2live]

I'd want to check with the product team and development team before recommending a PR on this, only because this particular area of the code is hard enough to maintain and another config option might make it worse/impossible.

[hex-m]

Edit welcome.html to do a redirect in the meantime.

How?

I tried putting a location.href = .. into welcome.html but as @yesennes already mentioned it's not loaded.

[MadLittleMods]

This now exists as the embedded_pages.login_for_welcome option.

login_for_welcome: When true (default false), the app will use the login form as a welcome page instead of the welcome
page itself. This disables use of welcome_url and all welcome page functionality.

We used this on https://app.gitter.im/ and it works great!