Use skip API to get all users in channel (room).

[choppsv1]

Fixes issue #52

[The-Compiler]

Any update on this? It's quite annoying that everyone talking is offline in bigger channels - I don't see nick colors, and I can't tab-complete nicks.

[MadLittleMods]

Fix up the conflicts. Is the best way to test this to just run your own instance and connect via a IRC client?

[choppsv1]

I updated this branch and got no conflicts.. I'm not using this sw anymore though.

[MadLittleMods]

Unfortunately, we can't move forward with this one because there would be too many requests going out for some rooms.

We limited the room members endpoint to a default of 30 for performance in the first place and trying to paginate through the API with a 60k member room like FreeCodeCamp is just not viable. To note, the max limit is 100 so that puts less strain and is less blocking.

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We could slowly add members over time for the people who chatted in the room. So every time a message is sent, we add the author/sender to the member list.

Also just throwing it out there about using /NAMES might be a decent indicator to fill in some members. Calling /NAMES #gitterHQ/irc-bridge for example could populate the members for gitterHQ/irc-bridge but this still has issues for very large rooms.

[choppsv1]

What if we add a upper limit of 5k or so? The first 30 or even 100 in larger rooms basically covers somewhere between none and 1 or 2 active folks in the room. The largest impact I think is on nick recognition (e.g., completion of nicks when hitting tab). For a while I'd also hacked my client to just add users as it saw them, then I decided to just give up on the bridge and use the standalone gitter app -- not an optimal solution as it means I use it less.

[MadLittleMods]

5k is probably still flying too close to the sun. I am not sure what the magic number would be to satisfy the niceness. The member list isn't sorted in any way so getting the balance is basically impossible unless we can get them all.

I think that adding members over time is the way to go especially for now. This captures a nice portion of people you would be interacting with.

I'd be open to merging that PR if you want to create a new one.

[The-Compiler]

We could slowly add members over time for the people who chatted in the room. So every time a message is sent, we add the author/sender to the member list.

That sounds like a great proposal. My main gripe is that I don't have nick colors (as offline people are all red in my client) and can't tab-complete people who are talking.