Element-web: Add ability to set room access based on community membership

Created on 19 Dec 2017 · 6Comments · Source: vector-im/element-web

Description

Add the ability to set a room's access permissions to "anyone in a user-specified set of related communites". For example, I'd like to be able to let anyone in one or more specific related communities join a room just by knowing it's link, but members from other communities must be invited either directly to the room or to one of the selected communities first.

Version information

Platform: web
Browser: Chrome 63
OS: Arch Linux
URL: riot.im/app

feature p3 spaces

Source

SoftwareSheriff

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Most helpful comment

Discord accomplishes this by having groups / roles within a community. You can give someone an invite link, at which point they are "in" a community, but then access is limited by roles / groups which are assignable to community members. This is super helpful since some a role might have permission to several community rooms, and administratie abilities.

dessalines on 19 Aug 2018

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lampholder on 11 Jan 2018

I'm surprised this isn't added by default. If I invite a user to my community, and the room is in my community (and it has flair showing that), they still have no access to the room!

dessalines on 3 Jun 2018

We don't want by default to open all rooms to all community members. That would be a way to get into any room: simply create a community with me and the room in it.
And communities can have "subcommunities" with wider access - simple members can only enter some rooms, but board members can enter the boardroom.