Pixy: https://pixydesignapp.com Docs: https://pixydesignapp.com/docs # Live mode A shared link you enter: whoever opens it watches you design the real site as it happens, with one control of their own. A live link is a [shared link](https://pixydesignapp.com/docs/share) with **Live** on. You enter it from your workspace, and whoever opens the link watches you work on the real site: the cursor moving, clicks landing, an element dragged, a color changed, the page scrolled, another page opened. They install nothing, sign up for nothing and see none of the editor, just your site changing under your hands, and a small row at the bottom left for the room. Nothing is recorded: it is a stream between browsers that are open right now. ## Going live Every shared link is a room. Whoever opens it is in, and the card shows how many are on each link right now. **Share** makes the link and copies it. Beside the link, and on the link's row under **All shared links**, every link carries **Enter live**. Press it and you are presenting: the button becomes **Leave ยท N watching**, the row at the bottom left comes up with its dot green, edit mode on or off, and its people switch counts who is in. A reload or a dropped connection enters the same link again on its own. Leave, and the row goes with it. A link can be scheduled: on the card, **Live** is **Any time** or **Scheduled**, with a date, how long it runs and a reminder, and the invitees get a calendar entry with the link. A scheduled Live is always the whole website, you walk the site while they watch, so the page or website choice stands down. Everything else on the card is as it was: who may open it, which versions, how long it lives. You present one link per tab. A second tab of yours that enters another link presents that one, in a room of its own. ## The row, bottom left One row, and the same row a viewer sees. A dot and the word **Live**: the dot is green while the session is going, dim while nothing is, red while your own connection is out. Then five switches, **people**, **chat**, **camera**, **microphone** and **sound**. A switch carries a count at its corner: who is in on people, what came while it was shut on chat, who is on camera and who is on mic. The word opens the menu in the row's place. A host has: - **Settings**: the share card on this link, to add a person or extend it. - **Invite someone**: an email address, or several, the link goes by mail and the chat says who invited whom. - **Mute everyone**: every microphone in the room goes off. Anyone may switch theirs on again. - **Leave live session**: you stop presenting. Viewers keep the link and see the site with your edits, as any shared link, and their row reads *Waiting for host*. - **End live**: asked first. The link stops working for everyone, and whoever is in sees that it ended. ## People Who is in the room and where. One row a person, **You** first, and under the name every page they are on, one per tab or device. A page that is not this one is a button that takes you there. A host has a cross on every guest's row to put them out, every tab of theirs at once, and **Removed** under the list names them, each a way back in. A removed name stays out for as long as the link lives, so a reload does not walk back in. ## Chat Everyone in the room. The log is the room's whole conversation, so someone arriving late reads what was said before. Shut, a line from someone else counts on the switch and shows for a moment at the top of the screen. A guest is asked for a name the first time they open the chat, with a generated one already in the field, and the name is remembered for their next link. ## Camera and microphone Anyone in the room may switch on a camera or a microphone, host or guest, at any time. Video goes browser to browser, Pixy carries only the signaling. The tiles stand in a column at the left, above the row, with your own under them, mirrored, and the one speaking outlined. A rail beside the column picks the view: **list**, the column beside the chat, **cards**, every tile laid out on a black stage over the site, and **full screen**, one big tile, whoever speaks, or whoever you double-click, which then holds. The arrow on the rail folds the column away. Sound is off until you press the sound switch, since browsers do not play audio unasked. Eight people may be on camera or microphone at once, everyone else still sees and hears them. ## What travels Your cursor and your clicks. Every edit: a change lands on their page the moment it commits, and a drag, a slider or a color picker shows while your hand is still moving. Your scroll and every page you open. A version switch, when the link offers that version. In the workspace, the board itself, the width the page is laid out for, your pan and zoom, and a frame around whatever you have selected. Text you type arrives when the edit commits, a moment later. With the workspace closed, clicking the site itself is replayed on their side, so your menus, tabs and accordions open there too. Links travel as navigation, and forms are nobody's to submit for someone else. ## What a viewer sees The site under a plain sheet while it loads, then the site with your edits on it, and the same row at the bottom left the moment you enter the link. Their menu has **Following host** or **Follow host**: following, your page stands on their canvas laid out for your screen, the way it stands on yours in edit mode, at 1:1 or fitted to their window when it is narrower, and it goes where yours goes, scroll, pages, versions, and the board when you open the workspace. Off, they keep their own layout, their own scroll and their own page and still see your arrow, your clicks and your edits. The choice sticks for the tab. Then **Raise hand**, and **Leave live session**, which takes them to the site as any visitor reads it. Their cursor is not seen: a viewer watches and speaks, only the host's hands are on the site. Until you enter, the word on their row reads *Waiting for host*, and the moment you do, it reads Live. A viewer never writes. A live link is the same read-only binding every shared link is: it can read the shared version and the images it names, and nothing else. ## Together, without a link Every editor of a project is in a room of their own the whole time, the team room, on the same wire. Open the same page as a teammate and you see each other's cursor, clicks, selection and edits as they move, each in a color of their own with the name on the arrow. An element a teammate has selected is theirs until they let go: you cannot pick it, and a notice says whose it is. The chat, the camera and the microphone are there too.