I think your permissions are fine but the weird permission locking of the default room needs to go away. There's no reason that room should be more special than

I think your permissions are fine but the weird permission locking of the default room needs to go away. There's no reason that room should be more special than the other ones. It'd also be nice to make it clearer whether someone can view a specific channel or not (eg see it in the list). Oh and... IRC gateway? :) Or at least open spec on the protocol, pretty please.