Change from binary "people present or not" to a capacity system

[misslivirose]

Since we've added a capacity of 24 people in a room, we should consider a system where the color emoji reflects how full the room is. 1 - 15: green, 15-23: yellow, capacity: red.

The downside is that from an accessibility standpoint, this will not be conveyed through r/y/g colors alone. We could consider other iconography to convey the same messaging.

In particular, this will be helpful for professional environments (conferences) to indicate how full a session is. + @blairmacintyre

[gfodor]

are there specific emoji that will do this? the diamonds are only orange and blue.

[gfodor]

we had previously tried things like the red dot but found the diamond to be a good size wrt not being overly noisy.

[blairmacintyre]

Can we use colored text?

(Room Less Than Half full) (Room More than half full) (Room Full)?

[misslivirose]

I don't think Discord supports channel text being other colors. The circles are a bit large. I wonder if having something like - ❌ when something was at capacity would be a comfortable intermediate, ❕ when it's getting close to full, ✔when it's empty would work.

I do wonder if that would increase noise for non-conference Discord communities

[blairmacintyre]

So, there is a red diamond in discord, its "diamonds" ♦️ in discord (and here)

[blairmacintyre]

There are also many colors of hearts :)

Visual noise in the discord is an issue; I would think / hope that perhaps just 3 levels (someone is in the room, room is more than half full, room is full) wouldn't be too bad. Especially if you put a bit of hysteresis in so it doesn't jitter around the mid-point