RocketChat / RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

Is it a room or is it a channel?

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Since Jul 18, 2019.

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Description

I think in Rocket Chat we use three words to mean the same thing Room, Channel and Group.

Group is used with private groups, Channel is used almost everywhere else and Room is used in few locations (like Room Info button on the side bar of the channel)

This is a bit confusing and also more work for translators and I don't see the point of doing it like this.

I suggest renaming them to one unified term, and since Channel is the most used term then I suggest using it.
So we have Channels and Private Channels
And "Direct Message" doesn't need the word "Room" with it. e.g. "Create a new direct message room" can be "Start a new direct message" or simply "New direct message" otherwise I suggest using "Chat" instead, since room is usually used for groups and not one to one.

What do you guys think?

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