Live-share: Notify new users that they're following the host

[AllenDuong]

Issue Type: Bug

When initially joining a collaboration session, the scrolling of users is linked. In otherwords, when a user scrolls it scrolls my client as well. This is fixed by closing the file and reopening.

Extension version: 1.0.91
VS Code version: Code 1.32.3 (a3db5be9b5c6ba46bb7555ec5d60178ecc2eaae4, 2019-03-14T23:43:35.476Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17134

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[lostintangent]

This behavior is actually by design. When a guest first joins the session, they are following the host, which includes file navigations and scrolling. You can simply unfollow the host to turn this behavior off (the doc I linked to shows how to do that).

When you close the file, it’s automatically unfollowing the host for you, which is why you’re seeing this behavior.

[AllenDuong]

Potentially adding a pop-up to let users know they are following would help?

[lostintangent]

Thanks for the feedback! We’ve actually discussed doing this exact thing. Does it seem reasonable to repurpose this issue to track this change? When a guest joins a session, we can display a toast notifying you that you’re following the host, and provide a button to turn this off. Does that seem sufficient?

We’ve also discussed providing an option to turn off the auto-follow behavior. So when you join sessions, you wouldn’t be following the host unless you explicitly choose to. Would that be of interest to you as well?

[AllenDuong]

The first option is exactly what I had in mind!

[lostintangent]

OK cool. I really appreciate you reaching out, and sharing the potential confusion with our current experience. We’ll use this issue to track your suggestion 👍

[tanjunior]

Thanks for the feedback! We’ve actually discussed doing this exact thing. Does it seem reasonable to repurpose this issue to track this change? When a guest joins a session, we can display a toast notifying you that you’re following the host, and provide a button to turn this off. Does that seem sufficient?

We’ve also discussed providing an option to turn off the auto-follow behavior. So when you join sessions, you wouldn’t be following the host unless you explicitly choose to. Would that be of interest to you as well?

option to turn off the auto-follow behavior would be nice.