Looking for a tlk.io alternative

What instant rooms are good at

Zero setup. No account, no configuration, no decision to make before anybody can talk. That is the right shape for a room that exists for twenty minutes, and it is the shape this app copies deliberately: a room and a link, in one step.

What they run out of

An instant room typically has no memory, no identity and no moderation. If the conversation continues tomorrow, nobody has history. If somebody joins and misbehaves, there is nothing to do about it. If two people need a side conversation, there is nowhere to have it.

Those are fine limitations for a scratch room and real problems for a group that kept going.

What is here instead

The same one-step start, plus the things a room needs once it lasts: history that stays, an optional account that keeps it, direct messages, photos and GIFs, replies, mentions that notify, reactions, and search across public rooms.

Moderation a volunteer admin can actually use: remove, time out, ban, and a word filter — including in Indic scripts, which most filters cannot express at all. Time-outs expire by themselves, so nothing becomes permanent by accident.

And if you want the room found

A room can publish its conversation and appear in a public directory browsable by topic. It is off by default, it publishes only from the moment it is switched on, and it can be withdrawn — a room is not quietly becoming a public page because it got busy.

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