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by halfmatthalfcat 1987 days ago
Per TV show, it's not one big chat room, however there is a default "general" room that is use to that effect. It's very much like Slack/Discord channels. Users are able to essentially create topic rooms within a show.

Think of each TV show as it's own Discord server and within the show are user-generated topic rooms.

My hope is that users basically self-silo into topic rooms that interest them in regards to whatever show their watching.

For example: the Yankees are playing the Marlins. Users can create a #yankees room, a #marlins room, a #umpire room, etc to create chat rooms around a given topic in regards to whatever they're watching. In each room, a user has the ability to block, filter words, etc...so they can tailor their chat experience in whatever way they want while watching any given show.