element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Telling people to verify people by "tapping on their profile picture" is confusing.

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A-E2EE-Cross-Signing O-Frequent S-Tolerable T-Defect
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Screenshot 2020-11-26 at 00 11 51

This caused the person trying to verify me to go and open my MemberInfo and then tap on my avatar, which produces a nice big picture of me, but no way to verify.

Meanwhile, the actual Verify button is pretty much hidden as a little text link rather than a proper button (which i've never understood - in the original designs it was a nice big green button?), which means it was missed.

**Update January 2025**: This is still a problem, though we now say "profile picture" rather than "avatar"

**Update October 2025": We should just remove the "Verify in their profile..." text.

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