I very much would like to avoid this problem: Avoiding making so many new chatrooms called "Discussion between user[A] and user [B]" which later become frozen or not very useful
We have a couple of inactive and un-named chat rooms that can be given a name and more useful purpose:
- https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/113915/discussion-between-saismaran-s-b-pes1201701189pes-and-ruslan
- https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/117114/discussion-on-question-by-jw-are-there-examples-of-ab-initio-predictions-on-sma
I very much like the chat rooms we currently have for various Matter Modeling software:
- LAMMPS (180 messages)
- GAUSSIAN (108 messages)
- PHONOPY (67 messages)
- ASE (57 messages)
- VASP (45 messages)
- Q-CHEM (32 messages)
- GPAW (21 messages)
- MOLPRO (19 messages)
We also have rooms that feed us special questions or information:
Then we have rooms for discussing the site:
- General chat room for Matter Modeling Meta
- General chat room for Matter Modeling Main
- Ask a moderator
- Tags
- Testing Feeds (discussion about any bugs/anomalies in how the feeds are working)
Then we have 1 subject-specific room which doesn't fit into any of the above categories, but is for talking about physical-properties-of-materials:
Questions now come up:
To what should we re-name the first two rooms mentioned here?
Maybe a room for graphics?
Maybe another room for a Matter Modeling software:
- vesta is a software with more questions on our site than phonopy.
- gromacs, cp2k, and orca have more questions on our site than gpaw. Maybe orca and NWChem can be incorporated into the MOLPRO chat room so that it becomes the "MOLPRO, NWChem, ORCA (MNO)" room?
- pyscf has more questions on our site than molpro (which at 8 questions is still not insignificant).
Maybe another subject-specific tag such as:
- density-functional-theory (our most popular tag by far!)
- software (our 2nd most popular tag! and could be combined with software-assistance and software-recommendations)
- molecular-dynamics (our 4th most popular tag!) The LAMMPS room covers this topic a bit already.
- high-performance-computing (our 13th most popular tag!)
Maybe the PHONOPY room could be changed to be inclusive of other python software?
- thermo-calc, pyscf and others may be included in this category (for example), though python itself might be better suited in a separate (subject-specific) room (there is already this very active room on SO for that though).
Maybe the GPAW room could be changed to be a "subject-specific" room covering related topics?
- pseudopotentials, plane-waves, and projector-augmented-wave come to mind for this.
In which room should these conversations go?
- A 5-message back-and-forth has occurred here: Is it right to neglect very small imaginary frequencies?
- A 5-message back-and-forth has occurred here: https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/3836/5 (maybe we could have an nwchem software room? or NWChem chat can be combined with the molpro software room?)
- A 7-message back-and-forth has occurred here (luckily I messaged in between, so the prompt to create a room "spuriously" may have been prevented): Is there a more efficient hard sphere packing algorithm?
- A 7-message back-and-forth has occurred here (though it was before the question was migrated to us from Chem.SE): Interpret 2D and 3D data from a PubChem summary of organometallic molecule? Can I "flatten" it when showing on a surface?
- A 5-message back-and-forth (this time involving me!) has occurred here (and I'd really love to continue the conversation since I'm learning so much from a true expert in the field!): https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/3920/5
- A 7-message (at least!) back-and-forth has occured here: https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/3508/5
- A 5-message back-and-forth has occurred here and is not over: https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/3879/5 (perhaps a room for protein-folding, biomaterials, proteins, and docking could be made?)
- A 5-message back-and-forth has occurred here and is not over: Energy cut-off value for conformer calculations (again this would go in the room for protein-folding, biomaterials, proteins, and docking)
- A 5-message back-and-forth has occurred here: https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/3939/5 (again this would go in the room for protein-folding, biomaterials, proteins, and docking)
- A 6-message back-and-forth has occurred here (involving me!): https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/2307/5 - I am reluctant to answer the user's last comment because I fear that a new room will be created (this might fit into a high-performance-computing room).
- A 5-message back-and-forth has occurred here: https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/685/5 (it might fit into a high-performance-computing room).
- A 6-message back-and-forth (involving me! but luckily interrupted by others in between): https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/1111/5 (it would be a perfect fit for a high-performance-computing room).
- A 5-message and 4-message back-and-forth has occurred here: https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/2051/5 (this would be a good fit for a high-performance-computing room, but probably would be even better in the existing room for vasp)
- An 8-message back-and-forth occurred here (involving me!) but luckily it was interrupted once: Which schedulers are compatible with a virtual machine? (this could fit in a room for high-performance-computing)
- A lot of back-and-forth happened here, but luckily was interrupted sufficiently: https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/1356/5 (this would be a perfect fit in a room for high-performance-computing)
- A 5-message back-and-forth happened here (involving me!) but luckily was interrupted: Is there a set of updated, comprehensive benchmarks for speed comparison between different quantum chemistry packages? (this would be a good fir in a room for high-performance-computing)
- An 8-message and 6-message back-and-forth happened here (both involving me!): Which Linux distribution is best for Matter Modeling? (this would be a good fir in a room for high-performance-computing)
- A lot of back-and-forth happened here, but luckily was interrupted sufficiently: Materials Modeling with Raspberry Pi? (this would be a good fir in a room for high-performance-computing)
- Although this one was interrupted, I had deliberately not responded because the discussion was getting too long in the comments: https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/3725/5 (this would be a good fir in a room for high-performance-computing)
- A lengthy discussion occurred here (it was recommended to write in the Spectroscopy & Potentiology chat room): Is it right to neglect very small imaginary frequencies?
- 5 comment back-and-forth about QTAIM: Interpreting electron localization function (ELF) results
- 4 comment back-and-forth on an NWChem question, I added a comment to attempt avoiding a possible spurious room creation: Energy per unit cell in NWChem differs for different supercells despite the same k-points density
- 6 comment back-and-forth on a question about mathematics of quantum chemistry: How can I implement the Cartesian harmonics?
- Example of a standard/archetypal/simple 4-band un-gapped condensed matter model with analytic results?
