Availability: hosted rooms unavailable

Before you start

• This is a scope explanation. It does not need a live hosted service.

Steps

1. 1

   Understand local review

   Rooms can be tested on a local review server; default in-memory rooms reset when that process restarts.

2. 2

   Understand what is unavailable

   Hosted room persistence, public invitation links, distributed realtime, and hosted scale acceptance have not been established.

Other paths

• Create a local review room

  See the local Open Challenge steps.

  Open guide: Create an Open Challenge

• Recover local room state

  See the local service's availability and restart limits.

  Open guide: Recover an unavailable, expired, or interrupted room

Related guides

• Create an Open ChallengeMake a private local-review room, share its code or invite link, and let each player start whenever ready.
• Join an Open ChallengeEnter a private local-review room from an invite link or six-character code, then play without waiting for the host.
• Host a Live RaceCreate a local-review race room, wait for connected players to be ready, start the shared countdown, then review final standings.
• Join a Live RaceOpen a local-review race invitation, join the lobby, mark ready, and play after the host starts the shared countdown.
• Review the projected-room flow locallyRehearse the Open Challenge code and QR screen; loopback-only review links cannot be reached from participants' separate devices.