Help

Let's Mingle is a room, not a meeting. Everyone in a space can see everyone else, several conversations run at once, and you move between them by clicking. There is nothing to schedule. Sign in with Google to create a space; visitors may join as guests when allowed.

Users

Getting in

Anyone with a space link can join unless banned. Hosts may require Google sign-in. Signed-in people use their Google name and photo; only hosts see their email. Google identifies an account, not a verified legal identity.

Guests enter a display name. Signed-in visitors use their Google name. Before entering, you can choose your camera and microphone settings; those choices carry into the room. Nobody can hear you on the join page, and you can enter with both devices off.

Camera and microphone start off on the regular join page. Joining or switching conversations does not turn your microphone on, and a host cannot unmute you. Returning with an existing session may skip the join page; use the bottom bar to check your device settings.

Your spaces and the space menu

Signed-in visitors see spaces they have joined across devices. Guests keep a browser-local list. Signing in does not automatically import that list: a space is saved to your account when you join it while signed in. The demo is not saved.

On the homepage, use Open to enter a saved space or Copy link to invite people. Its three-dot menu offers Remove from your list, which does not delete the space. Hosts also see Rename, Duplicate, and Delete space. Duplicating creates an empty space with the same sign-in requirement; people, other hosts, announcements, and bans are not copied.

Inside a space, the three-dot menu includes Your spaces, Help, account controls, and Leave room. Leaving stops your camera and microphone; the exit page offers a button to rejoin. The logo takes you to the homepage.

Talking to people

Click someone’s face and you are talking to them — no ring, no waiting for them to accept. If they are already in a group, you join the group rather than pulling them out of it.

• Join moves you into a conversation. If you were already in one you leave it in the same step — clicking another group switches you over rather than bringing anyone with you. The people you were talking to carry on without you.
• Leave puts you back on your own, in the room, still visible to everyone.

The conversation you are in can be named — select Edit Group Name under its title. For ordinary groups, only the people in a conversation can name it, so other cards show their titles as plain text. A conversation nobody has named is titled after the people in it, like “Ada, Bo and 7 others”.

When everyone walks away

An unnamed conversation dissolves when the last person leaves. A named one is held for five minutes — the card stays, reading “Everyone stepped away” with a countdown, and anyone can walk back into it. Press Keep this room and it stops expiring altogether.

Being available, or not

Your name in the bar at the bottom is a menu. It has three states:

• Available — people can click your face and speak.
• Focus — visible, but not interruptible by voice.
• Away — not here right now.

Focus and Away protect you only while you are standing on your own; anyone already in a conversation can be joined, which is the point of the room. Choosing Away also steps you out of the conversation you are in. Choosing Focus does not — it lets the one you are in finish.

Your camera and microphone

Both live in the bar at the bottom, and they mean the same thing everywhere in the space. The microphone is never switched by moving between groups.

• Hearing someone never turns your microphone on. Audio you receive and audio you send are separate; a face on screen can never carry sound you did not ask for.
• Your microphone goes amber when you are muted and people are standing with you — the case where you probably meant to be heard. Muted on your own is just resting.
• With your camera off, your tile shows your initials rather than a black square, so you still read as present.
• Normally, only people in your conversation can hear you. A host can choose to broadcast to the whole room.

Bigger rooms

As a room fills, participant tiles get smaller and then become name chips. The layout adapts to room size on both desktop and mobile.

Other conversations initially show up to six participants, with a +N button for the rest. Select it to show everybody, then Show less to collapse the group. One group expands at a time.

Your active conversation docks across the bottom of the window, above your own controls. Drag its top edge up or down to change its height; the participant tiles resize to fit. Your own preview stays in the bottom bar. Select Leave to leave the conversation while remaining in the space.

The demo room

The demo opens directly into a room of simulated guests, without a name form or sign-in. Join groups and move between conversations to try the layout. Some groups have topic names; others are named after their participants. Audio is off in this demo.

The demo requests camera access when you enter; you can turn your camera off in the bottom bar. Use Home or Create a space in the top demo banner when you are ready. After leaving, selecting Try the demo from the homepage opens it again.

Audio and video are not recorded by the app. Google Analytics measures page visits and site interactions, including demo pages; see the privacy policy.

When something is wrong

“We could not access your camera or microphone”

The browser refused. Allow access in the address bar and reload. If your camera works elsewhere but not here, check whether the operating system has blocked the browser itself — on a Mac, check Privacy & Security → Camera and Microphone.

“No camera available”

Either none is connected, or the system has taken camera access away from this browser. You are still in the space either way; people just cannot see you.

“We could not reach the media service”

Presence is working but audio and video are not getting through — usually a network that blocks the ports video needs. A different network is the quickest test.

Your camera is open but sending no picture

Another app or browser window may be using the camera. Close other camera apps, check browser permissions, and try turning the camera off and on again. Reload if the problem continues.

“You opened this space in another window”

One window per space, so two copies of you never appear in the same room. The newest window wins; the older one releases the camera and offers to take it back.

Camera and microphone need https

Browsers only allow them on a secure origin. If you are reaching the app over plain http, neither will work — this is the browser’s rule, not ours.

Anything else

Write to hello@letsmingle.io. What we do with the little data there is, is set out in the privacy policy, and the terms cover the rest.

Hosts

Managing a space

Sign in with Google to create a space and become its first host. Open the three-dot space menu and choose Room settings to rename or delete the space, add or remove hosts, ban or unban people, and turn on Require Google sign-in.

All hosts have equal powers, including deleting the space. At least one host must remain. Add a host by their exact Google email or promote a signed-in participant. They use that Google account to access their host controls; no invitation acceptance is needed.

Banning someone disconnects them. Account bans apply across devices; guest bans apply only to their browser identity and can be bypassed by clearing site data. Remove someone’s host role before banning them. Requiring Google sign-in disconnects anonymous visitors and asks them to sign in. Deleting a space disconnects everyone and permanently disables its link.

The site operator can monitor room activity for support and reliability: participant names, group membership, availability, device on/off states, and reported media errors. This view does not join the room and cannot access audio, video, messages, or announcements.

Hosting

Space hosts have a Host panel with Broadcast audio, Broadcast video, Message everyone, and Announcement controls. Admin access comes from your signed-in account, not a special host link. Broadcasting does not move anybody or change anybody’s microphone — including the host’s: if yours is off, nobody hears the broadcast until you turn it on.

Permanent groups

Hosts can open the Host controls and select Create group to make an empty, named group such as Brainstorming. It stays until a host deletes it, even if everyone leaves the space. Anyone can join; only hosts can rename it using Edit Group Name.

Hosts can select Delete group on its card. After confirmation, anyone in that conversation returns to the room on their own. They remain in the space and can join another group. Audio and video may briefly reconnect as the old call is closed.