A short, useful list
Up to 20 guests, and every operator and voiced speaker.
Big events, small-room feel.
Auditorium Mode and Auditorium Rows keep a crowd of thousands calm, quick to join and easy to talk in.
Auditorium Mode
Show guests the people they came to hear.
The problem with a long guest list
Every time someone joins a room, they are sent the name of everyone already in it. At 15,000 people that is about half a megabyte of names to download before they can say hello. Almost none of it matters, because all anyone needs to see is the people who can speak.
What it does
Switch on Auditorium Mode and each guest sees up to 20 people from the crowd, plus everyone who can speak: your operators and everyone with a voice. The room opens quickly, the server does far less work, and nobody is flooded with names that mean nothing to them.
When the event is over
Turn Auditorium Mode off and the crowd shows up naturally. In a large room people appear as they speak. In a small one they all appear at once, like a group walking in together.
Fast to enter
Guests are in the room and reading within moments, even at the biggest sizes.
Gentle on the server
Less to send to every newcomer, so the event stays smooth.
Auditorium Rows
A room of 15,000 that feels like a room of thirty.
One stage, many rows
Rows keep the control of a small channel at the scale of a huge one. Your hosts and speakers gather in one main room, called the master room. As guests arrive, they are placed in numbered rows next to it. When a host or a guest speaker says something in the master room, every row hears it. Your hosts and speakers appear to be sitting in every row, so each group of guests has the people they came to see right there with them, and still has a conversation of a normal size.
Master room
#event
Hosts and speakers talk here. Everything said is shown in every row.
Row 1
#event.1
30 guests
Row 2
#event.2
30 guests
Row 3
#event.3
12 guests
Next
#event.4
Opens when row 3 is full
1
Open the master room
Gather your hosts and speakers, then tell the room how many guests each row should hold.
2
Guests are seated
Newcomers join the lowest numbered row with space. When it is full, the next row opens.
3
Everyone hears the stage
What your speakers say reaches every row, and your speakers are in every row.
Rows that look after themselves.
You choose three numbers. ConferenceRooms handles the rest.
1
Limit: when a row is full
Guests always take the lowest numbered row that has space. Once a row reaches the limit, new guests start the next one.
2
Maximum: how far a row can stretch
Guests who go straight to a row, from a link for instance, can join until it reaches the maximum. After that they are told it is full.
3
Minimum: when to tidy up
As people leave, a row that falls to the minimum looks for a chance to merge into a lower numbered row, so you never have a dozen half-empty rooms.
One set of rules. Every mode and topic you set in the master room is copied to every row. Make the master room moderated and all the rows are moderated. Change the topic once and the whole audience sees it.
Setting it up.
These are the commands your event host types in the master room, here called #event. Use your own room name.
| Step | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Set the limit | /mode #event +l 30 | Each row holds up to 30 guests. When one fills, a new row opens. |
| Make it the master | /set #event MASTER | Turns the room into the master room and starts seating guests in rows. |
| Set the maximum | /set #event MAX 40 | The most a row can hold. Beyond that, guests see that the room is full. |
| Set the minimum | /set #event MIN 10 | When a row drops to 10 guests, it looks for a chance to merge into the next one down. |
| Turn Rows off | /set #event MASTER 0 | Every room goes back to being its own room, controlled separately. |
Can guests choose their row?
They are placed in the first row with space. A guest who is given a direct link to a row can join it until it reaches the maximum.
Can speakers talk to a single row?
Yes. A speaker can talk in any row like an ordinary guest, and what they say in the master room is heard by all of them.
What happens when the event ends?
Turn Rows off and every room goes back to normal. Turn Auditorium Mode off and the crowd appears as people speak.
Do I need both Auditorium Mode and Rows?
No. Use Auditorium Mode for one big stage with a calm guest list, Rows when you want guests to chat in small groups, or both together.
Ready to host a big event?
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