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Allow adding account via full username
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
Allow users to enter their full username (user:domain.com) rather than specifying to edit the home server, type in a server, and then need to enter the username.
#### Why would you like to do it?
Reduce less technical user confusion and number of steps to make the client more accessible.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
There could be a radio button for custom home server and a text box beside it (that you could click on, and have the radio button change automatically) where you type user:domain.com or user@domain.com and then you click connect, and you enter your password. Far less steps this way, less confusion.
### Have you considered any alternatives?
I know you can edit the config file to change the default home server, but this is even harder for family/friends to do.
### Additional context
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the client account-add flow and the existing home-server configuration path; no source file or test is identified in the issue. Define how full usernames such as user:domain.com and user@domain.com should be handled, including the custom home-server choice. Done means a user can enter the full username, connect, and proceed to password entry with fewer steps.
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Assessment
- Domain
- accessibility, authentication, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100