What's new

Everything we've changed, newest first.

Rooms make more sense now

— We moved the controls somewhere sensible and added a quick tour.

  • New: We added a quick tour the first time you join a room. Skipped it? You can replay it from your profile.
  • New: Everything about the room is behind the room icon now. Everything about you is under your picture.
  • Improved: We redesigned the bar under the shared screen. Bigger buttons, and the reactions are easier to get at.
  • Improved: Phones were hiding who has control and the Re-sync button. Both are there now.
  • Improved: You can see the host's buttons even when you're not the host. We just mark them Host.
  • Fixed: Invite links to private rooms were missing the code, so your friends got stuck at the prompt. Sorry about that one.
  • Fixed: Control kept dropping out halfway through a session. It sorts itself out now.
  • Fixed: Messages and Profile both opened the same thing.

Your room, your rules

— Hosts finally get to say who's allowed in.

  • New: Make a room public or private whenever you want, and grab or change the join code.
  • New: We check new room names ourselves now, so nothing horrible ends up on the public rooms page.
  • Improved: Room names stop at 50 characters. Leave it blank and we'll just name it after you.
  • Improved: When every machine is busy we tell you one is starting and that it can take a couple of minutes. It used to sit there saying nothing.
  • Fixed: A dropped connection could lock you out of rooms for hours. It clears itself in under a minute now.
  • Fixed: The maintenance banner slid off the top of the screen on a phone.
  • Fixed: The site flashed a wall of ugly unstyled text before it loaded.

Have a look before you sign up

— Public rooms are open to everyone now, account or not.

  • New: There's a public rooms page. Have a look and join one without an account. Live rooms show on the home page too.
  • Improved: Signing up from an invite used to ask for less than the normal sign-up. It's the same form now.
  • Fixed: Guess the Sketch kept playing to an empty room.

Create a room