[braiamp]

Chatrooms are freezed, not deleted, if there's enough content. The only reason why they are deleted is when there are less than 10 messages or 3 participants (don't quote me on that).

Actual rules:

> Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users.

[Wowfunhappy]

So did this room get lost in a middleground where there were too many messages for a comment section but too few to retain the chatroom?

That's obviously not a good outcome. Either the threshold for moving comments to chat needs to be moved up, or the threshold for deleting a chatroom needs to be moved down.

Edit: Wait, none of this makes sense! We can tell from the Internet Archive that there were at least 15 comments. So where is the room?

[braiamp]

The room is still there. There may be a need to log in however https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/64083/discussion-on-ans...

[Wowfunhappy]

I'm logged in, and I have 191 reputation on Ask Ubuntu, and that link brings me to a "Page Not Found".

[braiamp]

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