element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Search index init UX is confusing
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
1. I want to search, I search and get this error: `Message search initialisation failed, check your settings for more information`
2. Which links me to a Settings page where I must find the right option
3. Clicking "Advanced" I get a new error: `Unknown error` and a Button to reset
4. Clicking the button I am told `You most likely do not want to reset your event index store`
5. I confirm anyway
6. The indexing process seems to be working, I can now search
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
Search to just work
#### What happened instead?
User has to do many steps, some of which are misleading.
If the whole search initialisation failed, with "Unknown error", maybe the init step should be re-run without even telling the user? Either way, the only path here was to trigger a reset, but the errors and messages along the way are disruptive.
### Operating system
macOS
### Application version
Element version: 1.11.64 Crypto version: Rust SDK 0.7.0 (61b175b), Vodozemac 0.5.1
### How did you install the app?
element.io download
### Homeserver
1.104.0
### Will you send logs?
No
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