Option to create unencrypted DMs

[xaur]

I would like to create unencrypted DMs as easily as I can start encrypted DMs right now.

By trial and error I discovered that unencrypted DMs can be "emulated" this way:

• create an empty unencrypted room
• do not set room title
• invite the other person
• grant them admin power (100)

If the above is done, room name will change to person's display name (after a few hour delay) and room avatar will change to their avatar. It becomes almost like a normal DM, with one exception that it is listed under Rooms and not People. And of course knowing and doing all this means that only advanced users will do it.

iirc there was a context menu option to mark or unmark rooms as DMs but I don't see it now. There migth be some dev console hack to set room state properly but I don't know it.

[SimonBrandner]

iirc there was a context menu option to mark or unmark rooms as DMs but I don't see it now.

@xaur, you can mark a room as dm by using /converttodm.

Does this satisfy your needs?

[robintown]

Perhaps in the future there could be an intermediate dialog box when creating a DM (such as to specify an invite reason), and an encryption toggle switch could be added there as well.

[xaur]

you can mark a room as dm by using /converttodm

I don't see this command in /help, has this been added in some recent version?

[robintown]

@xaur It should be there at the very bottom, under 'Other', as it is for me.

[xaur]

Thanks, I tested /converttodm and it moves the chat from Rooms to People, but only for one party and not the other.

In any case, it is too much hassle for setting up unencrypted DMs. It should be as easy as setting up regular unencrypted rooms, that is a single toggle in the creation dialog.

[SimonBrandner]

Does #16772 represent your opinion?

[xaur]

@SimonBrandner thanks for the link! It does represent my general opinion (commeted there).

Thinking whether this issue is a duplicate of #310, I think it is not. This issue is a simple feature request (add a dialog with a toggle to disable encryption when making new DMs) and it is more "actionable", while #310 is more like a broad discussion.