Authentication and securing meetings is a point of friction in Jitsi. I wouldn't go that far to call it intentional. But if it is - I'm okay with that. Since it's open-source, somebody have to make money to keep developing software and pay bills at the same time.

On many occasions I found it annoying that auth cookies expire after a day or less. And the most confusing thing for me is that it doesn't work well with 1Password, so I had to type my passwords like a caveman.

I solved it in few ways:

* I added common rooms to the bookmarks so I can quickly host them

* I added another user for my partner so she can host meetings too.

* Since it's open source, I changed the code so that auth cookies stay active for 30 days, instead of 1 day.

* Just this morning I've been exploring mobile version of Jitsi meet, where you can click on room name in 'Recents' and join quicker. This is a win for non-technical members of our family.