These are special private rooms that can be created in one click to start a private session with a certain user or group of users. They are created selecting a user from a public room or contacts list and selecting "Private chat" from the context menu. They're basically like private rooms, but temporary in nature.  You can invite people to your private chats as you can do to the private rooms.   You cannot choose a name for a private chat as it will be generated automatically by the system.


If you decided that you want to use certain private room's settings to be as the default for all your private chats, you can click in the basic options tab:  Use as template for private chats.   And from then on, all the private chats that you open will use this room's theme, topic and welcome as well as all other room's settings.   


This function differs from the private room in several ways:

  • It is simpler, faster and easier to use.
  • You cannot choose a name for it, it will be created automatically.
  • It is a temporal room, that lives only while the private chat is ongoing.
  • Even though you can use a template for your private chats, you cannot customize it further and any changes to it will not be saved.