- The waiting room is now a clean page that follows the design system: the event, the audio and video controls, your name, the chat. The small game that used to sit in the side box is gone.
- The interactive square opens only if you choose it, and it fills the screen. The page's own controls stay beside it — name, microphone, camera, chat, notices — and you can step back out whenever you like. Anyone who would rather have no animation can switch to the classic version, and that choice is remembered.
- Avatars: if the address you registered with has a Gravatar, it can now appear as your picture in the room. An administrator turns it on, and our server makes the request: participants' browsers never contact gravatar.com.
- The component that records the event no longer appears among the participants or in the headcount: it is an internal service, not someone in the room. The notice that the event is being recorded stays exactly where it was.