Add IRC users and rooms to a space.

[ara4n]

When we had groups, we added IRC users/rooms to that group in order for flair to work.

Nowadays we have spaces, and it feels like we're massively missing a trick by not letting users automatically group their bridged convos together based on the network they're bridged from. Can we add to spaces by default?

[Half-Shot]

IRC users were never actually added to groups, there was voodoo in Synapse which would mark users inside an appservice as part of a group for performance reasons. I think trying to join our 100,000 or so libera users to a room would cost us an arm and a leg in performance cost for little benefit.

For rooms, we can probably just do it.

[Mikaela]

Doesn't this kind of depend on matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#3219 to be useful?

[Half-Shot]

I suspect it still has use in terms of allowing your client to organize your rooms (and, performance issues not withstanding, users) nicely into categories.

[morguldir]

I also think that this could be useful for showing how realistic the space flairs MSC is and how well a implementation works, if it doesn't seem realistic then perhaps this comment is the better option? matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#3219 (comment) (probably should have been a thread)

If you think it's too expensive to be realistic then maybe leave a comment on the MSC