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by 473999 199 days ago
Thank you for the report, we'll look into that.

Re. password... we landed on requiring a password to create the room to let you retain the "HOST" status. E.g., if you disconnect and go back ... need password to authenticate as HOST so that you won't lose your room to the first stranger that finds it empty

But all rooms are open. Password is just a "Recovery password". I will update now the description text to this