Option to create unencrypted DMs

[olivia-fl]

Describe the problem

E2EE in matrix is, at best, not very reliable. Most of the time I'm making DMs with people I don't need E2EE for security and would like to avoid the headache.

Describe the solution you'd like

A toggle in the UI when creating direct rooms to enable or disable E2EE. It should default to enabled.

Alternatives considered

Currently, I usually do one of the following

1. make client-server API calls by hand with curl to create an unencrypted room and invite the other user
2. make a non-direct unencrypted room in cinny, then /converttodm
3. make an encrypted DM

Option 1 is kinda high-effort (you have to fetch the access token from the browser console and then construct the right requests). I could probably make this a lot easier by writing a script and keeping a persistent token for CLI.

Option 2 doesn't set is_direct in the m.room.member events, so the other user's client will usually not mark it as a direct room.

Option 3 is just giving up. I usually regret this, when we start getting UTD or I decide I want to search old messages.

Additional context

No response

[uedvt359]

Our company recently switched to Matrix, and has disabled encrypted rooms. So I cannot use Cinny to communicate with people at all. Trying to message a user I haven't messaged before results in this error:

M_UNKNOWN: MatrixError: [403] You cannot create an encrypted room. user_level (100) < send_level (999) (https://***/_matrix/client/v3/createRoom)