Huddles

A huddle is an impromptu call that lives inside a conversation. No meeting link, no calendar entry: someone starts it, the channel shows it is live, people drop in and out.

Start a huddle

Start one from the conversation header, the command palette, or by joining the live indicator in a channel where one is already running. Each conversation has at most one active huddle, so "the call" is never ambiguous: it is the one attached to the room you are in.

Audio first

You join muted, audio-only. Camera and screen sharing are upgrades you turn on inside the call, not defaults to scramble out of. This keeps huddles cheap to join: dropping in to listen costs nothing socially or technically.

The pill and the stage

While you are in a huddle, a floating pill keeps the call with you as you navigate: mute, leave, and expand controls stay one click away while you read the diff being discussed. Expand to the full-screen stage (Shift+H) for the grid view and screen-share focus; Esc shrinks it back to the pill.

Call start and end are recorded as system lines in the conversation, so the channel's history shows that a call happened even for people who missed it.

Availability

Huddles (and meetings) are part of the calls feature on paid plans; see Plans and limits. Media is carried over WebRTC infrastructure; the conversation, membership, and history stay in Plain.