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Cards in the Conversation

A room somebody opened — a channel, a conference, a space, a P2P session, a match — appears in the conversation as a card that reads the room as you scroll past it. Live, it says who is inside and offers Join, which opens a tab of its own, and Copy link. Ended, it loses the way in and becomes the record: when it stopped, how long it ran and how many were in it. It offers nothing further, because you are reading it in the chat and that is where any way on would have led — the one exception is a match, which still offers the game, since a game is somewhere else. A match somebody already took says so rather than reading as broken, and a revoked link stays as a card that explains itself instead of leaving a bare address behind.

A room that somebody opened — a conference, a space, a P2P session, a match — appears in the conversation as a card. The card is not a screenshot of the room: it reads the room as you scroll past it, and it is the way in.

What a live card shows

The name of the room, who is in it and how many, and a badge saying it is happening now. Join opens it in a tab of its own so the conversation stays where it is, and Copy link hands the address to somebody else. A card never names a channel you could not have found on your own.

What an ended card shows

It goes grey, loses the way in, and becomes the record of what happened: how long the room ran and how many people were in it. In its place is the next plausible thing — the channel a conference happened in, or the game a match was played on. A match that somebody already took says so, because a full match is not a broken link: it stopped working by working.

A link that was closed

Revoking a link does not delete the card. It goes grey and says the address was closed, so a conversation that explained itself yesterday still explains itself today instead of leaving a bare address behind.

The P2P invite is one of these

A P2P request draws the same card, with the session's own address on it and Decline beside it. It has no link to copy: the token is the invitation, and it belongs to the two of you.

See Also

P2P Sessions in Chat · Closing a Shared Link