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00:29

@MartinSleziak Main chatrooms can't freeze, but cool nevertheless!

Martin Sleziak

01:20

@UnrelatedString Clearly they can be frozen - you can find many examples, this one was frozen too.

Jan 23, 2021 at 0:00, by Feeds

This room has been automatically frozen for inactivity

Mar 13, 2021 at 16:47, by Feeds

Andrew T. has unfrozen this room.

There are several related discussions around, such as: Exclude the main chat room from automatic freezing/deletion

The "main" chat rooms are actually just a normal chat room that people have created and then decided is the main one, the system doesn't have any concept of a "main" room, so they receive no special treatment. To complete your request, either that needs changing or mods need to be given a way to "protect" arbitrary rooms from automatic shutdown. But, personally, I'm not entirely convinced this is necessary - if a main room sees no activity at all for 14 days then it's not really much of a main room, is it? — DMA57361 Aug 1, 2011 at 14:41

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02:04

Isn't there some kind of exemption, even if it isn't a fixed "main room" status? Because this room has gone inactive for 80 days without freezing

maybe it's only if there's no other unfrozen rooms on the site

Martin Sleziak

02:24

Yes, exactly as you write.

System always keeps one room on the site open. (And the rooms exported from comments do not count for this purpose.)

Not too long ago, I happened to post an answer about this on a per-site-meta: Why has the timeout been reduced in chat?

Q: Why has the timeout been reduced in chat?

Our chat room, Ham Shack, is now inaccessible! For years, Ham Shack was not closed for lack of activity. But it just automatically closed after only 14 days of inactivity. 😡 Please put it back the way it was ASAP. TIA.

A: Why has the timeout been reduced in chat?

A short answer is: No, it hasn't been reduced. As explained in the chat FAQ, a room is frozen after it is inactive for 14 days. See the section "Will these rooms exist forever?" (And a room with very low activity is deleted after being silent for 7 days - but we're talking here about the room whi...