The Floor is for talking with people you already know. It waits for you.
A channel is a place. It holds up to six people, keeps its
name and its recordings between conversations, and is still there tomorrow.
You drop in when you feel like it, and whoever is there is there — the way
you drop into a group thread, except that you are talking.
When somebody wants you, you get a notification, the ordinary kind, and it
waits in line with all the others. Your ringer stays yours, your Focus mode
holds, and the answer keeps until you have a moment for it.
You can see where everybody is before you say anything. The list says which
channels have somebody in them right now, and how long ago somebody was last
in the others — and a channel nobody is using empties itself after a quarter
of an hour, so one that says somebody is there means it.
If a channel is empty, step in anyway and ping whoever you wanted: they get a
notification saying you are there. Then put the phone down. When they arrive
you hear them, and you can answer, with the screen off and the phone still in
your pocket.
Conversation is open — everyone can speak. When one person needs to be heard
properly, they take the floor, and every other microphone stays quiet until
they give it back. It is a way to finish a thought.
Record a conversation when it is worth keeping. Every voice is captured on
its own track, so what you get back is clear rather than a scramble, and it
is named once for everybody. Play it into the channel afterwards and listen
together, export it, or delete it — anyone in the channel can, not only
whoever started it.
Everything in The Floor is your people and the rooms you share with them.
Everybody here is somebody you both agreed to — they accepted a request from
you, you accepted theirs, or they opened a link you sent that seats exactly
one person.
A conversation passes through and is gone; what is kept is what somebody
chose to record. The only thing measured is how many minutes the server
carried for you, so that it can be paid for. It is free, there is no
advertising, and it is the same app whether or not you ever chip in.
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