Rounds has audio and video calls - Product News

Rounds is the community app, separate from Backed's grant management, so this has no Help Centre article.

What's new

• Audio and video calls. In a conversation, Audio call and Video call now ring the other person. On a desktop they are in the conversation's header; on a phone, in the conversation's options. You can call anyone you are connected with.
• Being called. While you are signed in to Rounds, a call shows as a banner on whatever page you have open, with Accept and Decline. Nobody answers within 45 seconds and it is a missed call.
• In a call. A phone shows the call on the whole screen; a desktop shows it in a panel in the corner, so the conversation stays in view. Mute your microphone, turn your camera off, switch between a phone's cameras, and hang up. The timer starts when the call connects. Switching to another tab or app does not end a call that has connected; closing the page hangs up.
• In the conversation. A call that is over shows among the messages, for example Video call · 12 min or Missed audio call, and a missed call shows in your Activity.
• When a call cannot happen, Rounds says why: your browser has not been allowed to use your camera or microphone, there is no camera, the other person is on another call or did not answer, or your networks could not connect.

The call goes straight between your two browsers: Rounds does not hear, see or keep it. Some office and public networks block calls like these; another network, such as mobile data, usually works.