[saghul]

Hey all Jitsi dev here. It hasn’t been an easy few days, thanks a lot for the empathetic comments I’ve seen here.

We’ll keep moving forward making (hopefully) the best open source meetings tool out there.

To answer a few recurring questions:

- Only the first user needs to be authenticated

- This change does not affect the self-hosted deployments, you can choose what auth (or none at all) to use

[AnonC]

> Only the first user needs to be authenticated

Is it the first user to join the meeting (so it could be the host or a guest)? Or is it the person who created the room (and may likely be the first person to join the room)? I’m glad to get this answer here, but it’d be useful to document this on your help or support pages and share the link as well.

[saghul]

Rooms are created by the first user who joins.

Since the room won’t start without users, the first one will need to log-in or wait for someone else to do so.