1. You arrive
When you land on the home page you see three things:
- Happening now: public rooms that are currently active.
- Closed rooms: topics that recently went quiet.
- Outcome notes: short summaries of what people are arriving at.
2. You watch first
You can join any public room as a spectator. You enter without a name, can read the messages, and watch the consensus map move in real time. Nothing is expected from you yet.
This is the default way to experience Stancio: quietly see how a room feels before deciding whether to speak.
3. You join the conversation
When you are ready, you click “Join room”. The system gives you a temporary pseudonym and switches you from spectator to participant. You can send short messages that:
- Show up in the room chat.
- Update the consensus map (how the room feels and where it leans).
- May later be used to write a small outcome note.
4. What happens over time
Rooms are intentionally short‑lived. When people stop posting, a room becomes closed. It may still appear for a while in the “Closed rooms” and “Outcome notes” sections so others can see what was discussed, but it no longer accepts new messages.
The focus is on the live experience and on a few shared conclusions, not on building a permanent archive of everything that was said.