Guests and the green room

What it does

Every show has a door — a link you send. A guest opens it, gives a name, checks their camera, and waits. No account, no download.

The door is the live's own page: your logo, a welcome, what the show is about, the house rules, when the next one is, the links that matter, in your colour, dark or light.

A guest is a person: what they do and where they are (the band under their name on air), a handle, pronouns, a colour, a picture from their own camera for when the camera is off, a question for you.

While they wait they watch the show as it goes out — seen by nobody, sending nothing — so they are ready when you bring them in.

You see who is at the door and who is in the room. Admit, hold, bring up, send back, remove — or name a moderator, who does it from their own page.

Camera and sound run through our own media server, so the picture between you and your guests is yours, not a video-call company's.

The standard behind it

• A guest holds a secret that names their one seat and nothing else. The host never sees it; our own systems cannot read it back.
• A closed door takes nobody. Fifty at the door is a queue, not a room — the door says so rather than letting the show drown.
• A guest gets a key to the room's media only once admitted, and the key expires in minutes. The key they hold while waiting sees and hears, and can do nothing else.
• A moderator is a guest the host named, and only a moderator can move the others or decide what the audience sees.