Add embeddable view of rooms for people to put on their own websites

[MadLittleMods]

As mentioned by @marclaporte, it would be nice to have something comparable to Gitter Sidecar for embedding a chat room on your own website.

One option would be embedding the room view from this project (Matrix Public Archive). That would show the latest messages in the room and just direct you to a Matrix client to chat. I've also considered this option for replacing the featured communities on the Gitter homepage.

Perhaps served at a URL like: /archives/r/matrixhq:matrix.org/${year}/${month}/${day}/~embed

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https://github.com/vector-im/chatterbox also exists (https://element.io/blog/element-launches-chatterbox/) but is more for one-on-one chat with a support agent style of a thing at the moment. This would need to be extended/modified to support the Gitter Sidecar use case.

[marclaporte]

• Chatterbox has not seen significant commits in nearly a year: https://github.com/vector-im/chatterbox/commits/main
• I don't know since when or if it's still the case, but in 2023-04, Chatterbox was no longer a paid service from Element.

So we should probably look more to:

• https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-viewer
• https://view.matrix.org/

[marclaporte]

Could https://view.matrix.org/ be made to also have Gitter rooms?

Or perhaps https://view.gitter.im/?

Viewing a chatroom log works fine. Ex.: https://view.matrix.org/room/!HgqZaVOcIULDourZoC:matrix.org/

For now, we can offer users two buttons: view chatlog, join chat

[marclaporte]

One option would be embedding the room view from this project (Matrix Public Archive).

"The Matrix Public Archive has been discontinued"
https://archive.matrix.org/

@MadLittleMods Any other ideas we could explore?

Thanks!

[dillfrescott]

I would also really enjoy a more modernized version of view.matrix.org. The current one is fine, dont get me wrong, but it is a bit rough around the edges.