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+# MSC3872: Order of rooms and subspaces in Spaces
+
+Spaces are incredibly disorganized, unlike other platforms, such as [Revolt](https://revolt.chat),
+[Discord](https://discord.com) and [Slack](https://slack.com).
+
+To solve this issue, this MSC proposes a custom, manual order for rooms and subspaces in Spaces.
+
+## Proposal
+
+This MSC proposes Spaces to have a specific, custom order of rooms and subspaces that clients are sent upon joining,
+and that can be updated at any time with the right permissions, which can then be reflected on other clients.
+
+This should greatly complement Spaces, and would make organisation and navigation simpler, especially since clients
+could implement features such as drag-and-drop reordering.
+
+### Why are the methods of algorithmic sorting insufficient?
+
+Often, it is helpful to have a specific layout manually edited by administrators of the Space. You can then have
+important rooms and subspaces at the top (like ones for rules, announcements, etc), discussion at the bottom (general,
+off-topic) and more layouts. Other platforms have this feature, and missing features are often what stops people from
+switching to other platforms, including Matrix.
+
+### How it works
+
+Rooms and subspaces are stored in an array with a certain order. This order is, unlike algorithmic sorting, an order
+manually set by client interaction (like drag-and-drop reordering), and does not sort by an algorithm like alphabetical
+sorting.
+
+This helps the Space administrators organize the Space as they see fit, and can always be overridden client-side.
+
+## Potential Issues
+
+This could require a certain amount of code changes in Matrix implementations.
+
+## Alternatives
+
+Manually adding tags one at a time to rooms/subspaces or numbers/letters to the start of their names could work
+instead, though this is more tedious and will likely prevent simple client interaction like drag-and-drop reordering,
+which apps like Discord and Slack have.
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