Possible Actions

IDEAS

• maintain a globally visible list of people in the space, and when you hover over them, show where they are in the space, and if they're in a room, highlight it.
• enable one way streaming to people who just watching the video conversation take place
• limit to 5 participants
• make an indicator on little room cards that shows that the room is "full", but that they can spectate/ participate
• small sounds / dings when someone enters the space
• make rooms url addressable
• storing the history of who joined and left the room
• storing the topic history
• putting the history of the room inline with the chat?
• handling when a user doesn't sign in
• disabling certain view modes that can still be accessed by pressing spacebar
• implement video controls for muting audio and/or video
• optimize streaming, and video quality as much as possible
• Make messages div always be showing the latest messages, not the oldest
• When the messages panel is closed, show a little number with number of unread messages
• When a message gets sent within a room, make the small surface pulse/lightup somehow
• twitter feed on back of rooms
• Embedding metamaps
• Letting someone set the map by id
• Letting someone set the hashtag for the room
• Change tweeeeetss in the tweet box
• Allow sign in with Google+

Other ideas

• capture transcriptions of conversations for posterity using WebSpeech in Chrome see here
• enable using @ messages to DM people on twitter who aren't online
• turn the chat functionality into using the Slack RTM api?
• being able to invite someone into a room, attract their attention in the 'global' space
• being able to "book" a room for a certain time

DONE

• if use firebaseAuthWithRedirect, not Popup
• fix "a public channel" on welcome popup to "a public backchannel"