Rooms - Fleet

Creating a room

Rooms in Fleet are created implicitly — there’s no “create room” button. When you join a room name that doesn’t exist, it’s created on the spot. Share the room name with others and they’ll join the same room. Room names are:

Case-insensitive (Design-Review and design-review are the same room)
Normalized: spaces become hyphens, everything lowercased
Not listed anywhere — you must know the name to join

Room lifecycle

User joins → Room created → Active while users are present
                                        ↓
                              Last user leaves / inactivity
                                        ↓
                              30-minute countdown begins
                                        ↓
                              Room + all messages destroyed

The TTL (time-to-live) countdown is visible in the room header and counts down in real time.

Concurrent users

Multiple users can be in the same room simultaneously. The sidebar shows everyone currently connected, and a typing indicator appears when someone is composing a message.

Room expiry

When a room expires:

All messages are permanently deleted
All connected users are disconnected
The room name becomes available again — joining it creates a fresh, empty room

There is no way to recover a room or its messages after expiry. This is by design.