room discovery

[trashhalo]

Rooms 1.0 made the choice to avoid room discovery as an objective. To help, saltz suggested names for hashtags and search operators looking for "magic text" in the html.

https://github.com/staltz/ssb-room/blob/master/FAQ.md#is-there-a-list-of-all-rooms-that-exist

Is a path for room discovery in scope this time around or still excluded?

Paths I imagine this could go down:

1. List of rooms. MVP something like the awesome-XXX github repos
2. go-ssb-room + p2p based discovery
3. Search engine based discovery https://www.google.com/search?q=%22next+generation+SSB+room+server%22
4. Social discovery (people sharing links on other platforms)

[staltz]

(3) and (4) are what I suggested in the ssb-room FAQ