diff --git a/src/components/views/avatars/DecoratedRoomAvatar.tsx b/src/components/views/avatars/DecoratedRoomAvatar.tsx
index af1cdc779c..5fb3287980 100644
--- a/src/components/views/avatars/DecoratedRoomAvatar.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/avatars/DecoratedRoomAvatar.tsx
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ export default class DecoratedRoomAvatar extends React.PureComponent<IProps, ISt
 
         return <div className="mx_DecoratedRoomAvatar">
             <RoomAvatar room={this.props.room} width={this.props.avatarSize} height={this.props.avatarSize} />
-            <RoomTileIcon room={this.props.room} tag={this.props.tag} isBlah={true}/>
+            <RoomTileIcon room={this.props.room} tag={this.props.tag} />
             {badge}
         </div>
     }
diff --git a/src/stores/room-list/algorithms/Algorithm.ts b/src/stores/room-list/algorithms/Algorithm.ts
index d4615356da..36abf86975 100644
--- a/src/stores/room-list/algorithms/Algorithm.ts
+++ b/src/stores/room-list/algorithms/Algorithm.ts
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ export class Algorithm extends EventEmitter {
         }
     }
 
-    private getTagsForRoom(room: Room): TagID[] {
+    public getTagsForRoom(room: Room): TagID[] {
         // XXX: This duplicates a lot of logic from setKnownRooms above, but has a slightly
         // different use case and therefore different performance curve
 
@@ -670,15 +670,4 @@ export class Algorithm extends EventEmitter {
 
         return true;
     }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the tags for a given room as known by the algorithm. May be null or
-     * empty.
-     * @param room The room to get known tags for.
-     * @returns The known tags for the room.
-     */
-    public getTagsForRoom(room: Room): TagID[] {
-        if (!room) throw new Error("A room is required");
-        return this.roomIdsToTags[room.roomId];
-    }
 }