Option to disallow listing of passworded and closed sessions

[tincancrab]

People are using my server to host "private" password protected sessions for just a few people, which is fine, but they aren't realizing they're also announcing the session on Drawpile's official listing server. In consequence, if trying to host a publicly announced session, sometimes Drawpile won't allow it because the server has hit its limit. The only way I know of to un-announce them is by using MOD powers to go into the room and edit the session settings. Users hate that and feel that their privacy has been violated. Is there anyway to do it outside of the session or integrate one?

[callaa]

I'll add the ability to control listings to the server admin API and GUI.

Do you think additional server settings to limit announcements would be useful as well? Such as an option to allow only non-password protected sessions to be announced?

[tincancrab]

That would be useful, I'm just thinking of the most tactful way to put it. A lot of users still don't know how to join sessions on a specific server, so if a session of mine isn't listed, they believe it doesn't exist, so I must explain to a number of people why they can't find it. Not sure how to circumvent this lack of user knowledge, but public rooms do rely more on the listing than a private one.

[askmeaboutlo0m]

Moved this over to the list server repository, since the last bit to implement is disallowing listing passworded sessions. The other stuff mentioned above has been implemented via the admin UI and the issue of people listing sessions should be lessened by invite links now being the more prominent way to join a session.