Every WhumbleZone Room Type, and When to Use It

Pick by what is on the screen. A YouTube link means a YouTube room; a Twitch channel means a Twitch room; a video file means a watch party room. For music, a mood room. For working alongside people, a study room. For talking with nothing planned, a voice room. For playing, a game room.

Jump to: The Six Room Types · The Study Sub-Rooms · The Voice Sub-Rooms · Mood Rooms · Two Things Everyone Gets Wrong · Things That Are True of Every Room · Frequently Asked Questions

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Room types exist because one room that did everything would do most of it badly. A focus room defaults to silence; a party room does not. A study timer is central in one and irrelevant in another.

This is the full map, including the sub-rooms that are easy to miss.

The Six Room Types

Room	Open it when	Mics default to	Sub-rooms
YouTube	You have a YouTube link, playlist or live stream	Your choice	—
Twitch	You have a Twitch channel and a group to watch it with	Open, usually	—
Watch party	The video is a file rather than a link	Your choice	—
Mood	You want music and nothing to look at	Optional	Four always-on rooms
Study	You want to work alongside people	Off	Five sub-rooms
Voice	Talking is the activity	Open	Three sub-rooms
Games	You want to play something	Open	Fourteen games

The Study Sub-Rooms

Five of them, and they are genuinely different rather than variations on a name:

• Virtual study room — open around the clock, no signup, drop in and start. The default.
• Focus room — mics off throughout, built for long quiet blocks. The closest thing to a silent library.
• Productivity session — state a goal at the start, report back at the end. The strongest option for something you have been avoiding.
• Study with friends — your own people rather than strangers.
• Online study group — a permanent link, so the group survives a bad scheduling week.

The Voice Sub-Rooms

• Casual hangout room — where nothing has to happen, and long silences are the normal state.
• Audio chat room — audio only on purpose. No camera, nothing to tidy.
• Talk while you play — the game and the voice channel in one tab.

Mood Rooms

Four permanent rooms that never go quiet: Study Lofi, Chill Beats, Jazz Café and Night Vibes. They are always playing, so there is no queue to build and no decision to make before you arrive. Pick a vibe.

Two Things Everyone Gets Wrong

Sending people the YouTube link instead of the room link. Everyone ends up in their own separate player, watching alone at slightly different timestamps. The room link is the one with your room's address in it — that is the one to send.

Running a separate call alongside the room for voice. Two live voice channels at once, so everybody hears an echo and blames their headphones. Either use the room's mics, or mute the room and keep your call — not both.

Things That Are True of Every Room

• Joining — No account needed. A room link is enough, on any device with a browser.
• Installing — Nothing. Rooms are web pages, which is why phones and borrowed laptops work.
• Privacy — Invite-only by default. Make a room public and it appears in Discover.
• Switching activity — The room persists when the activity changes, so nobody rejoins anything.
• Cost — Free. Signing up only keeps your rooms and settings between visits.