Live Voice & Video Inside Rooms

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Overview:

Based on the team’s and Jae’s insights, rooms should support lightweight live voice/video without leaving the chat. Start simple: one active session per room, predictable moderation, and clear abuse controls.

Objectives:

• Embed live sessions in rooms (no context switching)
• Tie session control to room roles and moderation
• Operate our own SFU; phase in scale

Requirements:

Session Lifecycle

• Any member can start a session if none is active (Start Voice / Start Video)
• Visible indicator in chat + sidebar with participant count
• Explicit join to publish/consume media
• Auto‑teardown after idle (default: 10 minutes without publishers)

Temporary Session Moderation

• First publisher receives temporary session‑only moderator controls
• Owners/admins can take control at any time
• Temporary role ends when session ends

Moderation Tools

• Kick/mute participants with reason and optional duration
• One‑click escalation to room ban via moderation suite
• Rate‑limit mic re‑joins after kick (e.g., 60 seconds)

UX

• Voice: active speaker tile; Video: simple grid with priority for speakers/mods
• Clear indicator of who controls moderation; admins can request control
• Post session start/end and moderation actions into the room feed

Technical

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Abuse

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Current State:

• No SFU, TURN, or signaling services; API is REST‑only
• Frontend has no media components or device permissions flows
• No room‑scoped hooks for session moderation/bans
• Infra doesn’t provision low‑latency media servers or monitoring
• No telemetry for concurrent connections/bitrate/quality

Dependencies

1. Room metadata and role framework from the chat rooms epic
2. Admin/mod command center to surface escalations and audit
3. TURN credentials and bandwidth monitoring in infra
4. Real‑time telemetry pipeline and dashboards

Phase 2 (Future)

• Multiple parallel stages per room
• Recording and replay
• PSTN dial‑in/out
• PWA/mobile integration