Hide Lobby ID from URL

[nawkht]

For streamers, on twitch as an example, if I tried to play with my friends on stream, I should hide the URL with a trick on OBS so people watching the stream can't see the Lobby ID in the URL and flood the room/server.
Skribbl as an example have a box that you hover over it and then copy the invite link for you friends.
After joining the room, there is nothing showing on the top of the URL.
Adding something like this would be useful.
Thanks.

[Bios-Marcel]

This was a design decision, as I wanted having a "browser native" workflow. This way I can just quickly hit Ctrl + L and Ctrl + C and the lobby address is in my clipboard.

Another interesting scenario that doesn't work in skribbl.io, is that you can't hit F5 or Back and Forward again. My mouse for example has a "back" button which I hit by accident sometimes. How do I get back into a public lobby for example? I assume we could solve this with cookies though.

However, I see why this would be useful for a streamer. Would it be enough to be able to do this as a client-side setting? Meaning you'd have to opt-in. Or maybe you have a better idea to approach both of these problems?

[nawkht]

Yes true, I remember accidently hitting my MOUSE4 in skribbl.io couple of times and then I wasn't be able to get back to the game.
Hmmm, how about having a password for the lobby ?
Like you see the ( Public Lobby checkbox ) at the main page ?
Maybe if it's not checked, it should be asking for a password.
If someone random saw the link and typed it, he shouldn't be able to play unless he have the right password.
What do you think about that approach ? You think it's doable ?

[Bios-Marcel]

Of course it is doable ^^

Funnily enough there was a password box in the beginning, but I thought it was useless, so I removed it.
Soooo, we'd have private / public + optional password. Should a public lobby still be able to have a password then?
I think it's kind of useless for a public lobby though, since lobbies don't have names. Meaning nobody would be able to look for a specific public lobby and enter the password.

The homepage is getting more and more messy as well, I was thinking that I might have redesign it either way.

[nawkht]

If it's doesn't take much time, having a password for the public lobby make sense to me in a scenario where a streamer wants his viewers to join, the streamer should tell the audience to look for the server and type the password.
Like i have a few friend streamers, i could host the app for all of us. If one on us decided to play with viewers, he tell the viewers to go on that app and search for "nawkht" lobby and only few lucky people who type the password fast who can join.
But ofc if you only have time for it. Thanks again.

[Bios-Marcel]

Well, no promises (Didn't work out well for me in the past). We'll see when I get around to do this.

[nawkht]

Well, it's not important. You don't have to waste your time on it.
The password thingy should be enough.
And thanks for your time.

[nawkht]

This is unrelated, but i think maybe you should add some donation links, i'm pretty sure many people would like to help.
Paypal / Bitcoin and others.