progval
Support direct messages
it's really hard, in Matrix they are actual rooms you can invite people to.
So currently, they are shown like a regular channel with a random name
This might help: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/2199
Is a sight effect of this issue that some rooms don't have titles? I noticed some rooms have this gibbering of a name that conversations get right now.
Matrix rooms with a canonical alias (starting with #) are mapped to an IRC channel with that alias as name.
Some Matrix rooms don't have a canonical alias. These are usually DMs, but one doesn't entail the other. For these rooms, M51 uses the id, which is ! followed by a (usually) random string.
I noticed some rooms are created with names but with a canonical alias, would it make sense to map the name in case there's no alias?
Regular Matrix Apps use the id but show the name.
It seems on the server I am some rooms never got this alias.
Names come with all sorts of issues: they contain spaces, aren't unique, are more likely to change than canonical aliases. That's why I prefer to use the id. As a workaround, you can define a canonical alias yourself for DM rooms
Val Lorentz @.***> writes:
As a workaround, you can define a canonical alias yourself for DM rooms
Only for dms I assume? It would be nice to be able to define an alias locally for any room similar to how bitlbee does it.
and for non-DM rooms as long as you're an admin. I chose to make M51 not have any database because in order to keep it from getting too complex, but this has some downsides like this
Would it be possible to add the use of non-canonical names as an option, even if it's not the default? I don't mind if someone changing names invalidates all my DMs with them; that's the expected behaviour on IRC anyways.
@ToxicFrog If this is implemented, it will appear as coming from their mxid (not their display name), which doesn't change anyway