Timeline for Exclude the main chat room from automatic freezing/deletion
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| Mar 24, 2019 at 9:56 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | This answer is wrong. There is no concept of “main chatroom”. What happens is that the last active chatroom of a site will not freeze, but it could be any room, e.g. a room automatically created by “move comments to chat”. I'm not aware that anything has changed since balpha's answer and your observations don't contradict that. | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 12:27 | comment | added | Meta Andrew T. | @Rubén it still goes to the chat room page filtered to that particular site, but empty just like CS50.SE chat room | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 2:53 | comment | added | Rubén | What happens to the chat link on SE log dropdown the if the "main" chat room is deleted? | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 2:40 | comment | added | Meta Andrew T. | @NogShine based on the FAQ, a room will be either deleted or frozen, and most "main" chat rooms have passed the retention threshold, so they won't be deleted and only will be frozen forever. Also, I believe "main" chat room can be deleted automatically if no one participates and another chat room is created. IMHO, it's probably easier to think that actually there is no concept of "main" chat room; every chat room is subjected to the same rules. | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 2:22 | comment | added | Nog Shine | @Bookends Ok. I think the mechanism has changed after this answer is posted. When i posted this answer, I checked in multiple rooms. If you check cliffb chat room, it has not frozen for 6 months even there is no message. So, the main room is still an exception from automatic deletion. (btw, cs50 Site doesn't have a chat room? Is that fine). | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 0:53 | comment | added | user302202 | To demonstrate that Bookends is correct and this answer is wrong, I dropped by Open Data site and created a room: soon thereafter, their main room was frozen for inactivity. (Oops) | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 0:48 | comment | added | Meta Andrew T. | Actually, the "last standing" chat room is the one that won't be frozen, regardless if it's "main" chat room or not. CS50's "main" chat room is frozen because there were newer active chat rooms, until someone deleted the last one, and now the site doesn't have any open chat room... | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 9:48 | comment | added | Nog Shine | @shadow Probably here "We do try to keep at least one room open per site, but it looks like some 1:1 rooms (question-related rooms between a few users) were taking precedence." diy.meta.stackexchange.com/a/351 | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 9:46 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Hmm... pretty sure that I saw something about single room not being frozen too even if not the original main room. (i.e. main room can get deleted, it happened on arqade I think) | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 9:42 | comment | added | Nog Shine | @ShadowWizard Most likely, the room which was created by system is the room which doesn't freeze. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 8:23 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Not sure it's about main rooms, more likely that if there is only one single room for a site, it won't auto freeze. Unless you have proof that's not the case? | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 7:51 | comment | added | Nog Shine | @Chair Yes. Rooms where there is no activity except feeds freeze. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 6:06 | comment | added | user392547 | This applies to meta sites' chat rooms too, right? | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 5:41 | history | answered | Nog Shine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |