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strukturag / spreed-webrtc

WebRTC audio/video call and conferencing server.
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[UX] Add hint about chatroom visibility #126

Open PVince81 opened 10 years ago

PVince81 commented 10 years ago

When joining the "Main" room, it wasn't clear to me whether only people in my organization would see it or whether anyone from anywhere could join it.

What is the scope of the "Main" room ?

I suggest adding this information as a hint in the UI.

longsleep commented 10 years ago

Yeah there should be more information about things.

The scope of the main room is the same as for other rooms. Whoever is in the same room is in the same scope.

PVince81 commented 10 years ago

So if I understand well anyone in the world inside "Main" will see what I typed ? I'd better create a "private" room then :smile:

longsleep commented 10 years ago

Yes :) Rooms and the room chat is public. Whoever is in the same room while you type the message, does receive the message. Of course you can always use private messages to single users too.

longsleep commented 10 years ago

Btw - on the matter of explaining the UI, there is this pull request: https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc/pull/122 - it adds a guided tour on the first start.

PVince81 commented 10 years ago

Maybe adding the text "Public" behind the room name might help, with a tooltip "This room is public, anyone with the URL can join".

Are there any plans for Private rooms by the way ? So far the only way is either using a non-guessable uniquely generated hash id or hosting a spreed.me server behind an auth server.

longsleep commented 10 years ago

There are plans to make rooms lockable and allow registered users to bind a given room name to their account so they can grab the room at any time if wanted.

If it is a good idea to make one register rooms which cannot be used by anyone else is open for discussion. The whole room thing is open for discussion too.

There are also plans to have groups of invited uses which serve a similar purpose like rooms but are to private to a limited number of known people. Of course there will be group chat.

PVince81 commented 10 years ago

Sounds good :smile: