Public Chat Topics - Separate rooms?

General Discussion
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Hello - brand new to OpenFire. I have a server up-and-running, and doing some testing. It looks very promising. However, a question arises - We’ll have about 600 users. A “Public Chat Room” is OK, but we need to have the ability to have separate topics.
It looks like I can finagle this by creating brand-new “public chat rooms” on-the-fly, with the topic as its title…I’d “retire” various “rooms” after the conversations petered-out, so I wouldn’t have tens-of-thousands of them.
Currently our users are on FaceBook in a private group. The number of active topics currently ranges to about 20-60 before aging-out. This seems doable to me, but I wanted some feedback by more knowledgeable people if this is the best approach.

Thanks!

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Creating so many rooms manually by administrator is not the best option. Maybe you can just allow users to create rooms on their own?

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That’s basically what I’d do - have a “New Topic” button which spawns another public chat room. Only the nomenclature would be different. This would all be done programmatically through the REST API.