Ron via Talk wrote on 2025-07-23 19:36:

Note to self: can I change the room token to "talk" so it's not a random string?

For the record - no. The DB for our Nextcloud is inside a Docker container and I don't have access. It really should be something that can be renamed! This is the URL for our monthly meetings (good luck remembering this!): https://hub.gtalug.org/call/7m45sf9i Even the general Talk page is ambiguous, as Talk app is called "Spreed" under the hood: https://hub.gtalug.org/apps/spreed/ I have done this on other Nextcloud instances, and it involves an UPDATE in the DB CLI but it worked most of the time just like one would expect.

Scott Allen wrote on 2025-07-24 06:10:

I like the way Jitsi Meet handles meeting names. If you go to the main URL (e.g.https://meet.jit.si) you can choose whatever you want for the meeting name (e.g. GTALUGtalk)

Yeah, that's better. Nextcloud Talk didn't really get as much attention prior to the pandemic and there's a strong memory of "Zoom bombing" that happened for about 5 minutes early during Covid. Hence, they want to obscure room names still. Some LUGs still don't publish their meeting URLs until the day before a meeting because they got "bombed" 5 years ago. Same with a Nextcloud "File Drop" - a URL that users can upload files to but not see other files that have been dropped there. It'd be nice to have its URL be something like "/uploads" but they, for security reasons, disagree. I oughta write an app to handle this but my PHP is rusty, I don't know Symfony, and having tried to get a merge request approved in the past kinda soured me on it.