goneb room is in the room directory even though it doesn't have an alias?

[aaronraimist]

The goneb room is in the matrix.org room directory but is unjoinable because there is no alias listed so clicking on it gives a "No known servers" error since it is trying to join by room ID.

[bwindels]

This looks like fallout from the recent alias changes in #12337

[bwindels]

#neb:matrix.org might want to consider setting a canonical alias. m.room.aliases have been deprecated by MSC2432 and Synapse doesn't seem to return any local aliases any more to prevent alias spam. I've filed matrix-org/synapse#7069 as well to see if we can improve anything on the server side as well.

[bwindels]

Once we decide if and how to handle this on the synapse side, there might be some more work left on the riot side, so leaving it open for now, but as the fix is easy (adding a canonical alias) I'll deprioritize this.

[bwindels]

Turns out we can also improve the situation on the riot side by passing the currently selected server in the room directory to the join command. PR is out for that.