we really need to find a way to improve the default privacy settings of the room invite

[AmandineLP]

I hate never knowing what i'm getting into when accessing a room: who is there aside from me, what is the subject of the discussion... I know the trade off privacy/visibility is not easy but basically today i have no choice than accept random invites before discovering whether it's porn spam or not

[MTRNord]

Maybe do it in the way Hangouts does it. They first only show the invite and give the option to show a message. So in a way they force on direct messages to give a "welcome message" which the other person can look at before joining. (A bit like peeking but combined with a forced invite message/reason)

[ptman]

Also invites don't seem show when the invite was sent. That can be useful as well. Did it just arrive or has it been waiting for me for 5h?

[hex-m]

This sounds like a request for MSC2444 (peeking).

[t3chguy]

It can already be done via a Synapse homeserver.yaml config where you specify what state events are shared for invites