Conpherence currently has private threads, but there's significant interest and value in having rooms, like IRC. The major distinction for "rooms" is that they can be browsed, viewed, and joined by non-members.
This task outlines a reasonable technical implementation of rooms, although the last mile of product integration is intentionally left vague until we have better support elsewhere. Roughly:
- Add a flag to mark threads as rooms (T7583).
- Add policies for rooms (T7582).
- Add UI to browse and create rooms (T7584).
- Make other UI stuff work (T7585, T7586, etc).