Element-web: option to hide NSFW rooms in directory

[uhoreg]

probably involving some sort of public tagging of rooms (though probably not called tags, since we already have room tags), and filtering the room directory based on tags

[Valodim]

Beware of overengineering: Simply filtering by NSFW keyword in the title might be a perfectly valid utility/effort tradeoff.

[turt2live]

Related: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/4286

[lampholder]

I think this would be a really good thing to do (P3 just because as far as I'm aware it's not currently on our active agenda).

[uhoreg]

Beware of overengineering: Simply filtering by NSFW keyword in the title might be a perfectly valid utility/effort tradeoff.

A lot of NSFW rooms don't have "NSFW" in the room name, and filtering rooms that have "NSFW" in the topic will filter out rooms that say, e.g. "NSFW Uploads are banned" (#jupiterbroadcasting:matrix.org) or "Tag NSFW stuff" (#_foonetic_xkcd-compsci:matrix.org).

[ara4n]

i'm hearing instances of people who don't recommend Riot because of the NSFW rooms in the matrix.org roomdir. One solution is just to remove them from the list for now, but i'd rather fix this at higher priority. +1 to not overengineering it for now; although it does need an explicit tag on the room somehow rather than the 'look for NSFW in the topic'.

[rodneyrod]

I feel that this issue could be solved on the user end with custom tags, mentioned here:
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/1373

Custom tags could include a NSFW option for the group that the user could check.

[uhoreg]

The tags referred to in #1373 actually are per-user tags (like the "Favourites" and "Low Priority" that you see in the left-hand side bar), so wouldn't really help with this issue. But some other global room tagging system might work (which is actually what I suggested in my first comment).

[BloodyIron]

Is this still a thing? Close maybe?

[turt2live]

we don't have this filter yet, so we shouldn't close it.

[BloodyIron]

Last update before my message was 2017 though, and this is marked "p1", is this actually a critical thing? If not, p1 seems overstating it.

[turt2live]

Our README describes our prioritization process. Let's not fill this issue with that discussion though.

[ghost]

although it does need an explicit tag on the room somehow rather than the 'look for NSFW in the topic'.

Rooms with pornographic icons are showing up in the list right now. A "show porn" box in the search, mercifully unchecked by default, is going to become a necessity as Matrix gains traction.

[BloodyIron]

Not everything NSFW is pornographic, categorising like that is not going to be the blanket solution.