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
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Last user leaves / inactivity
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30-minute countdown begins
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Room + all messages destroyed
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.
