Hello staff,

First of all thanks for responding to my previous request, it was greatly appreciated by our community. That said, after some thinking, we would like to propose an idea how to improve on that with minimal effort from the team that any perchance community can benefit from.

The idea is that generator admins should be able to create rooms that are protected with a password. The implementation can be the same as it is for administration of comments plugin: a GET request to load messages from a password protected channel could include roomPasswordHash query parameter that takes a hashed password that admin on comments plugin had set up through admin command. To set up the password, comments plugin admin should log in first. Then, the command password should become available to them, which takes three arguments: verb (set or remove), channel name and plaintext password for chosen channel (if set verb was used). The password is then shared by the word of mouth, or in any way that the administration of the generator sees fit. KISS, gets the job done, and shouldn’t take very long to implement.

Thank you!

  • @AdComfortable1514English
    2•1 month ago

    But the chatrooms still have to be visible to everyone though?

    If not I feel that could open up all sorts of avenues for illegal activity

    • @perplexityOPEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      You mean that other users can read, but not participate? I don’t think this would do any justice though. You don’t want for any random visitor to read a moderator lounge, or room for 18+ roleplay, for instance. I agree with your statement about it being an invitation for illegal activities, but at the same time if you think about it, creating private generators is already doing the same thing and having password protected rooms is no different, just improves the UX. One can easily slap a comment plugin on a private generator and do as they please without anyone having a clue.