No. New rooms are end-to-end encrypted in your browser with a key that only exists in the room’s links and in the browsers that have opened it. We store scrambled text. We can see room names, who’s a member, when things changed and numbers like vote counts, but not what anyone wrote, their names or their images.

Any device that has opened the room remembers its key, so it keeps working there. When you create a room you get a recovery link: keep it somewhere safe, because it’s the only way back in as the owner. If every link and device is gone, nobody can unlock the room, us included.

You choose when you create it, and can change it any time. Take part (the default): anyone with the link can vote, chat, ask questions and sign up, but only people you invite can change the room. View: anyone with the link can look. Edit: anyone with the link can change everything. Invite only: only people you invite can get in.

Room links end in a random code, so they can’t be found by guessing. Public rooms start with their layout locked: visitors can tick, vote and type, but can’t add, remove or move modules. And noot keeps recent copies of each room, so an admin can put it back the way it was in one click.

So every room is unique and hard to guess, and nobody can grab common names like “standup” for themselves. Owners can add a plain short link, like noot.live/#standup, that opens their room.

No. There’s nothing to sign up for. You’re the owner of the rooms you create on this device, and you can make other people admins with an invite link.

Yes. Press T in a room for a full-screen view with a QR code people can scan to join. It updates live, so it works as a team dashboard or on everyone’s second screen.

Any time. The room menu has Export as JSON and Copy room as text. Admins can also delete a room, and then delete it for good.