Simplified mode which hides public room functionality about schildichat-android HOT 5 CLOSED

Yes, very good idea! I think you understood my point now :-)
Please also hide the setting to disable encryption, in my opinion the private rooms should always be encrypted.

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This doesn't sound too useful to me. At the protocol level, direct chats and rooms are currently the same thing except for one flag that tells if a chat is direct or not. You can also create multiple "direct" chats with the same user, and invite other users into "direct" chats.

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Hi SpiritCroc, I agree but non-tech users don't know that.
So I'll try to reformulate :-)
The purpose here is to make Schildi more attractive for 'non-tech' people, e.g. coming from Whatsapp/Facebook Messenger and similar. These don't use/need public rooms (at least by default), and are uncomfortable with the 'Direct messages'/'Rooms' double-choice of the (+) button.

My first (and preferred) proposal is to show a very simplified UI by default: a simple (+) button that goes directly to the 'Direct messages' menu. But with possibility for intermediary/advanced users, via Settings (or top-right menu for easier access) to 'Enable public rooms' that would switch to the (+) button with double-choice.

Alternatively (I like this one too), you could propose to user: 'Do you want a simple interface without Public Rooms? (public rooms can be enabled later on)' in the start screens just after install. This would trigger start choice between (+) button with Simple or Double-choice.

And worst case, please just add in Settings the possibility to switch to simple (+) button, I will use it when I install/show Schildi on the phone of my 'non-tech' contacts.

What do you think ?

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From how I understood your initial suggestion, I thought you wanted to hide all kinds of group chats, including private groups, which is a common use-case for most users - the only messengers that do not feature this natively that come to my mind right now would be SMS and E-Mail probably. Whatsapp definitely allows for group chats; I don't know about Facebook, which I never used.

Now after reading your reformulation, it makes more sense to me: the keyword is "public" rooms. So to check if I understood it correctly now what such a setting would do:

• Clicking on + / Rooms goes directly to "Create new room" instead of the intermediate step which allows joining public rooms
• The "New room" screen would hide the setting to make the room public and publish it in the room directory
• Hide room address settings in the room settings

Is this what you want? Is there any other public room functionality that should be affected?

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Good idea, I updated the issue with my current thoughts on the topic, so I can remember them faster when I find time to look into this.

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