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I finally figured out how to add my matrix rooms to the matrix.org server's room dir for greater discoverability. It's not a great workflow, but here's how to do that safely, if you are on a different homeserver:

1. You'll need a matrix.org account, a throwaway one will do it.
2. Join the room you want to add with that account
3. Set the m.room.canonical_alias permission to custom level 10
4. grant your matrix.org user that custom level
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Bubu :progress_pride:
Bubu :progress_pride:  
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This also works for every other matrix server with a public room dir of course.
I.e. I also added it to the shivering-isles.com server's room directory.

@sheogorath also has an article about matrix room directories in general and how to add other's server room dirs to your client: https://shivering-isles.com/Using-the-matrix-room-directory
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Lioh
Lioh  
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Where can I see the mentioned Permission? In Element I only see something like Change Room Name.
Lioh
Lioh  
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I have given the user Mod right for that and afterwards removed the permission again. Thanks for the hint, thoug.
rugk
rugk  
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uhm if that is so complicated, would not make sense for to document that somewhere?
rugk
rugk  
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some Matrix wiki oder so? I guess there has to be sth.
rugk
rugk  
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are matrix developers her eon Mastodn to know where tp put this? Ma
ybe they can help… @khaos
@Nehme Tokio :matrix: 📷
Hubert Chathi
Hubert Chathi  
I don't know where the "right" place to put it is, but you can throw the information in a GitHub issue and let someone else try to figure it out. IIRC, you don't *need* the m.room.canonical_alias permission, but we also don't (yet) have a proper reliable way of determining whether you're allowed to publish to publish to the room directory.
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