Ability to click on links in pinned messages

[almereyda]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

I would like to click on the link that I just put into my pinned message.

Why would you like to do it?

As a workaround to not being able to put nice Markdown links into the room topic.

• The Room Topic #27915

How would you like to achieve it?

Links are rendered in blue and with an underline. Clicking on them opens a new tab with the target of the link.

Have you considered any alternatives?

Nice human-readable Markdown links in the room topic don't work.

Additional context

This is probably the same for Web and Desktop, but might need follow ups for these tracking issues for the mobile implementations:

• Pinned messages: handle "m.room.pinned_events" type element-android#357
• Render and allow pinning of events element-ios#4573

[almereyda]

Two workarounds exist:

• Opening the room's pinned messages sidebar, where the link can be clicked.
• Clicking a second time at the other border of the screen onto the link in the message where the timeline jumps to when clicking the pinned message for the first time at the bottom of the screen.

Another solution could be to offer a quick link to the pinned messages sidebar somewhere near the pinned messages display at the top of the timeline.