Yuri Vieira
Users frequently join Voice Rooms and think nothing is happening.
The video is either hidden or reduced to a small, easy-to-miss preview, depending on where they join from.
Currently, the Voice Room video only appears as a small preview in the top-right corner—and only if the user is already on a channel page. If they join from an Events page, a Course, or a Resource, no video appears at all.
This creates a confusing and unintuitive flow: users must be on desktop, navigate to a channel, notice the small preview, and manually expand it. This friction leads to frustration and significantly reduces Voice Room adoption.
We actively promote community-led Voice Rooms to keep conversations inside the platform (instead of external tools like Zoom), but the current experience makes participation harder than it should be.
We’re also seeing inconsistent behavior across browsers, with Chrome displaying more video feeds than Safari.
Requested improvements:
  • Automatically surface the Voice Room video regardless of where the user joins from
  • Open the Voice Room in full screen by default
  • Improve cross-browser consistency, especially on Safari
These changes would make Voice Rooms easier to understand, easier to join, and far more engaging for communities.