There are three ways to have meetings on Tandem:

1) Automatic Meeting Rooms (Google Calendar only for now) - Meetings with internal participants will automatically appear in Tandem.

2) Quick Meetings  - Click + to create a quick meeting.

3) Meeting Links - Get a link from + and put it into Calendar (scheduler chrome extension coming soon!)

Meeting Links work like other meeting apps - they give recipients access to the meeting, but not your team. If they don't have Tandem, they'll be prompted to install, then taken straight to the meeting (browser-mode coming soon!).

There are three ways to have meetings on Tandem:

1) Automatic Meeting Rooms (Google Calendar only for now) - Meetings with internal participants will automatically appear in Tandem.

2) Quick Meetings  - Click + to create a quick meeting.

3) Meeting Links - Get a link from + and put it into Calendar (scheduler chrome extension coming soon!)

Meeting Links work like other meeting apps - they give recipients access to the meeting, but not your team. If they don't have Tandem, they'll be prompted to install, then taken straight to the meeting (browser-mode coming soon!).

🛠 Infra and Call Quality

• Significant call and screenshare changes under the hood:
• Faster connect times
• higher quality video + screenshare
• Screenshare quality improvements.
• Screenshare pinch/scroll to zoom-in.
• Bug fixes - Apple M1 camera issue, bluetooth devices.

You can now control the video layout

• Max Videos allows you to control how many videos you see per page. If you're having network issues, less videos is better (we do some automatic adjustment here).

✋ High-Five

In expanded mode, click the hand to high-five a teammate!

🕰  In case you missed it

Remember lunchtime group conversations with your team? In-person conversations are dynamic, spontaneous, with sub-conversations forming and re-forming fluidly. Now you can have these flexible group conversations with our Crosstalk feature!

To start a crosstalk, click on the button in the top-left of your teammate's video. You'll still hear the main conversation, but at a lower volume. Moving between Crosstalk sub-conversations is easy - just click on who you want to talk with. Each Crosstalk will be assigned a random colorful emoji to help tell them apart.

Bug Fixes

• fix for old meetings showing up
• fixed upcoming meetings bugs
• fix multiple client presence issues
• chat paste crash
• fix screenshare + camera off issue if you toggle camera
• Fixed bugs with Crosstalk

UX Improvements

• '/random' has better formatting
• Minor polish on Dark Mode

Sometimes it's nice to have your teammates in a neat row at the top of your screen, right under the camera (so it looks like you're making eye contact). Now you can do that by expanding the call box, then resizing to any size you want. Pro tip, you can click the 📌 in the top-right or use the shortcut [P] to make the window always-on-top.

Show Room Presence in Slack

Now, when you enter a Room in Tandem, your room state will be broadcast via Slack status (if connected). You can disable this behavior from the Slack preferences.

• We've reorganized the in-call tooltip experience to appear on click instead of hover (no more accidental clicks!) and have additional options. You can click to join someone's website or request screenshare by clicking on the app icon (e.g. Github) to the right of their name.
• In addition, in your own user tooltip, you'll see options for temporarily disabling your self-video, screenshare, self-crosstalk (which turns down audio of everyone else), and sharing your current link (even non-work links are supported)

Give rooms a touch of personality by adding a background. We've pre-packed a few calming nature backgrounds, or you can upload your own. To set it up: Click on a room name > Edit Description > Random Cover or Upload your own.

At Tandem, we encourage people to listen in to meetings, even if it's outside their area of focus. It's low-pressure, and really builds a sense of openness, transparency, and camaraderie. Think of it like a podcast...but it's your teammates!

Sometimes you want to listen in without feeling obligated to talk. Now you can join rooms and meetings as a listener:

You can explicitly invite your teammates to listen-in as well (anyone available will get a notification). Here's what it looks like:

Remember lunchtime group conversations with your team? In-person conversations are dynamic, spontaneous, with sub-conversations forming and re-forming fluidly. Now you can have these flexible group conversations with our Crosstalk feature!

To start a crosstalk, click on the button in the top-left of your teammate's video:

You'll still hear the main conversation, but at a lower volume. Moving between Crosstalk sub-conversations is easy - just click on who you want to talk with. Each Crosstalk will be assigned a random colorful emoji to help tell them apart.

We've found crosstalk game-changing for virtual happy hours, co-working, and breakout conversations after standup!

Here's a quick video demo:

Like a quick wave in real-life, Tandem waves are multi-purpose. Use it to greet your teammates, like a "Hello!" or "Good morning." Or use wave to let them know you're free to talk. If a teammate waves at you and you aren't free at the moment, you can do a friendly wave back and catch up later.

Here's another way to use wave: If you're in a meeting and realize it could be nice to include a teammate, but isn't critical, wave at them to let them know they're invited to listen in.