Support direct messages

[progval]

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

[progval]

This might help: matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2199

[Thaodan]

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.

[progval]

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.

[Thaodan]

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.

[progval]

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

[Thaodan]

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.

[progval]

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

[ToxicFrog]

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.

[progval]

@ToxicFrog If this is implemented, it will appear as coming from their mxid (not their display name), which doesn't change anyway