I don't think there's anything wrong with voting to keep it though. Just because a view isn't the majority opinion doesn't mean it's wrong.

I appreciate the feedback here from users, but we can't vote to make site decisions on the fly. The chat system will be revamped though to fix leaving rooms not removing them from the sidebar.

Categories is another separate topic, Personally, I'd rather not introduce an AI specific category unless a lot of AI flooding the site became a problem. To me, that seems better suited for chat (like BrowseGPT works via DMs)

I am not proposing we remove @BrowseGPT just the channel that really serves no purpose.

But we can't just unilaterally remove it only because it'd be popular to do so. Some users for instance might not have any other way to access AI than via the DNS, and it shouldn't be our role to restrict that.

Also, I understand your reasoning, but please consider that seventeen users (that's a lot of you consider the amount of people who frequent this website) have voted against it.

thank you!

But there's also the separate problem of neither of these chat rooms are really used. And users are able to leave any room to free up sidebar space / stop receiving messages. Site slowness is unlikely to be affected either way.