Library Night

come back in.

your name and your word.

we'll send it by post.

what should we call you?

this is how the others will know you.

Chamber settings

Only the curator can change these settings.

Seal chamber (no new occupants)

specific doorway

name the room

give this chamber a purpose, or leave it open.

Schedule a Temporal Chamber

A time-boxed room that opens and closes on its own.

Opens at

Duration

Friends

Keep close to the people you want to return to.

Add friend by email

Verify your email to add friends.

No friends yet.

No pending requests.

No one recorded yet.

Friends

Please confirm your email before using the friends desk.

Check your inbox for the verification link. You can request another if needed.

Shelved chambers

Click to unhide

DC — What's New

Secret messages are in the stacks for anything meant to stay softly hidden.

Shelved chambers and direct messages should settle in more reliably while the room list wakes up.

Whisper /help to see available whispers.

Chambers can now carry a topic, and creators get a quiet prompt to name the shelf.

Temporal chambers now open and close on schedule for time-boxed gatherings.

Verified guests can send friend requests by email from the friends desk.

Fixed: Markdown is now accepted within notes. Try *italic* **Bold** and --Strikethrough-- when composing notes.

You can now send a friend request directly from presence.

You can now link to a chamber by putting the name inside double brackets (eg. [[chambername]])

The library now is alive...

Polls are added; check the home screen.

Developer Menu

Hidden runtime controls for Library Night.

Presence

Ghost Mode Skip RTDB presence writes while keeping live room reads.

Force Idle Dim Pin the is-idle body class on/off without waiting for the timer.

Impersonation

Override display name for this session only — no Firestore write.

Message Testing

Seed multiple messages into the current room to test scroll, pagination, and lastMessageText truncation.

Max-Size Messages Pads every outgoing message to the 400-char rule limit.

Lifecycle Override

Force the current room's displayed phase locally without writing to Firestore. Resets on reload.

Age Room

Backdate lastMessageAt on the current room in Firestore to simulate it being N days old. Triggers real lifecycle transitions.

days ago

Auth Token

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Library Status

Shut Down Library Forces the lockdown overlay for everyone listening to the system status node.

Broadcast

Send a notice through RTDB to every active reader.

Room Management

Manage any room by ID without navigating into it.

No room selected

Temporal Chambers

Schedule a time-boxed public room with a fixed opening and expiry.

Global Radar

Pulls live presence from RTDB on demand, then looks up room titles and lifecycle details for every active chamber it finds.

Active Users

Active Rooms

No radar pulse yet. Ping to inspect the current site-wide presence map.

Typing Activity

Live snapshot of rooms with active typing nodes in RTDB.

Click Refresh to scan.

Lifecycle Cache

Click Refresh to inspect.

Room Data Cache

Click Refresh to inspect.

Op Counters

In-memory counts since page load. Zero billing cost — these tap the existing log hooks.

FS Reads

FS Writes

RTDB Reads

RTDB Writes

App State Snapshot

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Notices

Nothing new rests at your door.

Please confirm

Send friend request

The Library is currently closed.

The stacks are dark for the moment. Please return once the doors open again.

find a chamber

Drop to share

Images & GIFs — from files or the web

Quiet chambers for small conversations

topic ▾

☰

one more thing — confirm your address in your inbox. check your spam too.

Chamber atmosphere

Quiet

Type /who to reveal who's here.

Tonight's topic

Someone is writing...

Connection looks a little shaky. We’ll keep trying.

say a word

or try

Type any word to find or open a chamber. You'll be asked to sign in before joining.

No one has written here yet. You arrived first.

Chamber at capacity.

Secret message on — recipients hold to reveal

This chamber is preserved and cannot receive new entries.

The Library is Under Renovation