That's the thing, though: this would be completely voluntary. I'm only listing them here so as to inform people of a precedent â if they ever wanted to bud new and long-term channels, but would not, because they wouldn't know what names to use.
I was thinking that we might as well discuss names now rather than later, so that any concensus can be more firmly agreed come the time when there is too lot of chat in gossip.
I suspect that I don't understand what you meant by âswitch channels manuallyâ. Unless somebody reconfigured their Chat tabs and message routing so that gossip uses its own tab, all the chat channels are directed to a single tab by default. (Correction: it is not possible to divert a particular channel in the âChatâ.)
As such, the only way to âswitchâ out of one is to /leave it.
Now, as for the scopes of the channels themselves:
What do you think about the names, though? Ideally, they would be mneumonic and obvious, but should not collide with any names players could want to use for small, temporary channels â i.e. making a channel to discuss somebody's birthday celebration in-game.
Again, you are correct: with few players online or not much activity, there is less concern with overflow or disrupting other conversations in fewer channels.
Thank you for sharing your tuppence.