Live presence makes a remote retro feel more like an in-person session. You can see who is in the room, what order they joined, and when everyone is ready to move on.
Viewer Presence
The retro header shows a live avatar strip of every participant currently connected to the room. Each avatar uses the participant's display name and theme colour. The order is the order people arrived, so the facilitator can see at a glance who joined first.
- Avatars appear as soon as a participant opens the link
- They disappear when the participant closes the tab or loses connection long enough for the heartbeat to time out
- On mobile, avatars collapse into a count chip floated to the top-right of the header that you can tap to expand
The Done Signal
Each active sub-status (Draft, Vote, Discuss) has a Done button for every participant. Clicking Done is a soft "I have nothing more to add right now" signal - it does not commit to anything and you can clear it again at any time.
A participant is automatically marked Done in the Vote sub-status when they have spent all their votes, so the facilitator does not have to chase people who have already finished.
The All-Done Pulse
When every connected participant in the current sub-status is Done, the participants button in the header pulses for the facilitator. That is the cue to advance the sub-status. If a new participant joins after the pulse, the pulse clears and the participant has a chance to catch up.
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