Add support for hidden rooms (by link/by invite)

[jessykate]

eg. sigil, autumn's house.

[jonathan-s]

Ie the url would be obfuscated so it won't be as easy to find out about it?

[jessykate]

Yes! Actually there's a couple of different patterns that I'd love to think through. First, worth noting that I think we want the ability to hide at the room level, not just locations writ large. Second, I can imagine uses for both an obfuscated URL approach and whitelist approach.

The use case I have heard most often is folks who have a room they want to make available to an "inner circle" or known set of people, and their fear is usually that a landlord will get wind of it. So in that case the whitelist approach seems most natural.

But in practice the inner circle may not already have an account... so perhaps a bonus feature would be to route an invited email through signup (like we do for bookings) when they are invited to a room.

I suppose we could always start with this and then add the obfuscated url approach after if it seems desirable (a similar thing already exists for inviting third-parties to pay invoices for bookings, which is a feature on the site already).

Thoughts?

[jonathan-s]

Cool :) That makes it a lot clearer what is actually wanted / needed. In summary * be able to whitelist a user / email for a room. * if that email is not associated with a user, the user will be taken through a sign-up first * an email needs to go out when you whitelisting happens. * possibly use of obfuscated url after this. Though with whitelisting it kind of seems unnecessary Not too much to add. -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

[jessykate]

Yes great summary :).