How Vaults chats work
Real-time browser to browser group chats. The full picture, plain English.
What chats are
Vaults chats are real-time group chat rooms. You create a room from the dashboard, get a 6 character key, and share that key with anyone you want to talk to. They open the room in their browser and start chatting. No app to install.
How the connection works
Messages, typing indicators, replies, reactions and file transfers travel directly between participants over WebRTC, browser to browser. Our server is only used to introduce two browsers to each other so they can connect. Once connected, the messages do not flow through our database.
Who can join a room
Only people with the room key. Rooms are not listed publicly anywhere and the keys are random. If you stop sharing a key, nobody new can join.
File sharing
You can share files up to 50 MB inside a room. Files transfer peer to peer like messages. They are not uploaded to Vaults storage.
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