[gnoupi]

Disposing of the room does remove it and kick everyone out, indeed. And then the link is invalid. Neat. According for the privacy page, it's all living in RAM only, so in theory there is no logging (https://niltalk.com/pages/privacy). Guess we can check the code and see for ourselves, of course.

[icebraining]

Guess we can check the code and see for ourselves, of course.

Alas, you can't really know if the code on Github is actually the same running on their servers.

[knadh]

Author here. I concur, just like any other open source software running as a hosted service. It has to be trust based.

[akerl_]

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...

It doesn't need to be trust-based, and in fact shouldn't be trust-based, because even if I trust you, I also have to trust the people who could coerce or bypass you, or people who could maliciously access/modify your systems.

This is why end-to-end encryption is really the only way to make promises as a server about not reading / storing logs.

[grey-area]

The dispose button is far too inviting where it is. I started to click it thinking it was the submit button till I read the text. Perhaps put it somewhere top right or someplace other than right beside the input box, also, it's kind of weird that there is no admin for the forum, so any participant can delete it I assume?

Cool project though.

[knadh]

Yes, that's by design. These rooms are meant to be completely ephemeral and private amongst small groups of peers. It's critical to ensure that anyone who is connected is able to quickly dispose of the room for security / privacy reasons. Once a room is created, there is no "admin" or "host" per se, just a short lived private space.

[grey-area]

It's critical to ensure that anyone who is connected is able to quickly dispose of the room for security / privacy reasons.

And if you're not a small number of trusted participants (e.g. anon participants, not all of whom you trust, or enough people that one might make a mistake or delete before everyone is ready), that's not going to work. See the example forums being created and deleted above. They could easily allow two passwords on setup though to avoid this - one for admins, one for posters.

On the button placement, it really would be better elsewhere - it is not related to the text submission entry, so it belongs at top somewhere, along with the sound, which again is a forum-level setting.