How can I find an old frozen chat room, rather than create a new one each time?

Question

Some time ago, upon mutual agreement, I created a chat with another user to ask for advice which would be off-topic in the Q&A page. Is there a way I can keep track of this chatroom? I tried to find it again after two or three weeks but

1. I have no idea how to search for it
2. I hesitate to create another room each time. I found this post (Avoiding making so many new chatrooms called “Discussion between user[A] and user [B]” which later become frozen or not very useful) very reasonable.

I also was sad to lose the discussion I had with the other user some time ago, I thought it would stay archived there somehow. And maybe it did, but I don't know how to find it. Is there a way?

Answer 1

Starring rooms and showing frozen/deleted rooms

If you have 10k or more network wide reputation, you can see deleted rooms when you search for them:

_{Taken from just a rooms page, not a search page. Should still be there any time you search for rooms here}

If you remember roughly the name of the room, or text in the description, this should work.

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If you were the owner of the room, you can see it on your chat profile. Again, only users with 10k or more network wide rep can see deleted rooms.

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If you want to keep the room very close on hand, rather than searching for it each time, you can star the room:

This allows you to find it much more easily here, but can also mean that you'll join the room whenever you rejoin all your starred rooms.

Answer 2

If you were an owner of the chatroom, it will be listed on your chat user's profile page. Here is yours. If there was enough activity (more than 15 messages by at least 2 users) it won't have been deleted, simply frozen after a period of inactivity.

If you have at least 10k network rep you'll be able to see deleted rooms there as well. I can see 2 frozen and 5 deleted rooms which you're a Room Owner of.

Another method is searching for messages you remember which were in that room. For example, if you remembered that you discussed pasta in this room, you could search for messages containing "pasta" that you've posted, and that might help you find the room. (Assuming chat search is working, that is. It needs kicking some of the time)