Consider handling bridge bots in room names differently

I originally posted this issue in Fractal’s repo but I was told the issue is related to the spec, so I apologise if this repo is not the correct place for this:

The name of a room that is a bridged DM will always follow the template of “[NAME], and 2 others” (the “2 others” is referring to the bridge bot and yourself). Also, the room wont have the profile picture of the other person.

This makes the rooms list uglier and harder to parse, especially if you have many bridged rooms. It also doesn’t make much sense to mention “2 others” if they’re just you and a bridge.

I don’t exactly know how exactly this should be addressed. Maybe excluding any bot from the name of a room that has one other users could work? But I’m sure there’s a problem I’m not thinking of with that.

(Although I don’t think that mentioning the user in a room’s name makes sense in any context.)

Start by locating the Matrix specification’s room-naming rules and reviewing how bridged direct messages and bridge bots are represented. Compare the current “NAME, and 2 others” behavior with the reported rooms-list and profile-picture concerns. Done means reaching a decided, documented specification change or determining that no change is appropriate.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.