Ed Nutting

On a separate note: with a more stable video layout, entering a room with video/audio enabled would be much less disruptive as the videos wouldn't resize/move around/disappear.

Perhaps my bias is that I already equate "vid/mic off" with "just listening or AFK" - anyone used to remote working or online gaming is likely to already have this...

I think we should follow Zoom's example: Layout everyone in a grid, try our best to always keep the positioning the same (boxes for participants are all equal size), and...

@jon-bell The above conversation does nothing to address that particular problem... none of the alternatives to a grid layout solve the issue of not showing more than 4 videos at...

(Or a 2x4 grid and a room size of 8 - depends a bit on which set of mobile devices you want to target - you can't win them all....

This results in the silent observation problem mentioned above. It is acceptable in slack because the expectation is you know who is in the organisation. I don't think this is...

Unless you meant not to show the room (video/audio/etc) until after the type of join has been selected? Which isn't like Slack's I don't think. That would be more like...

@bcpierce00 Okay yeah that's Zoom's model not Slack's.

I suspect for our purposes, operating our backend as a read-only mirror of large Twilio chats will be both easy and more than adequate. It would operate something like this:...

For large channels, read/unread counts could be easily emulated - for each user for each large channel, store in Parse DB the last time the user opened that channel, then...