Browse the web together with Portals

Some of the best moments in a community happen when everyone is looking at the same thing. A video someone has to share. A game trailer that just dropped. A doc the team is reviewing together. Until now, that meant one person describing their screen while everyone else tried to keep up - or juggling a separate screen-share and hoping the timing lined up. Portals fix that. A Portal is a real web browser that lives inside your voice Room, shared by everyone in it, in perfect sync.

What a Portal is

Open a Portal in a voice Room and a browser window appears for everyone there at once. When the page scrolls, it scrolls for everyone. When a video plays, it plays for everyone, at the same moment. There’s nothing to install and no link to pass around - if you can hear each other in voice, you can browse together.

Because the Portal runs in the cloud rather than on any one person’s computer - powered by Hyperbeam, the virtual browser technology behind it - the experience is the same whether someone is on a fast laptop or a phone on mobile data. Nobody’s machine is doing the heavy lifting, so nobody falls behind.

One driver at a time

A shared browser only works if it’s clear who’s steering. In a Portal, control belongs to a single driver - the person clicking, typing, and navigating. Everyone else watches live and follows along. When it’s someone else’s turn, control passes to them, and the page they were on stays exactly where it was.

That simple rule keeps things calm. No fighting over the cursor, no accidental clicks from six people at once - just one person guiding while the room watches, and an easy hand-off when it’s time for someone else to take the wheel.

What you’d actually use it for

Portals are deliberately open-ended - it’s just the web, together - but a few uses come up again and again:

• Watch something as a group. Queue up a video or a stream and react in real time over voice, instead of everyone hitting play a few seconds apart.
• Plan and decide together. Pull up an article, a listing, a schedule, or a doc and walk through it as a group while you talk it over.
• Show, don’t tell. Walking a new member through a site or a tool is far easier when they can see your every click as you describe it.
• Hang out. Sometimes there’s no agenda - just friends in a voice Room poking around the internet together, which is its own kind of fun.

Built for the way communities already gather

Portals live where your community already is: inside a voice Room, alongside the people you’re already talking to. There’s no separate app, no meeting link, no scheduling. You drop into voice, open a Portal, and you’re browsing side by side - then close it and keep talking when you’re done.

It pairs naturally with the rest of Glade. Screen sharing and camera video already let you show your own screen and face in a call; Portals add a shared space that belongs to the whole room rather than any one person. Use them together: someone shares their camera, someone else drives the Portal, and the conversation keeps flowing.

Try it with your community

Portals turn “let me describe what I’m looking at” into “look at this with me.” That shift - from talking about something to experiencing it together - is exactly what makes a community feel close.

Open a voice Room, start a Portal, and explore the web with the people you’re already talking to. Create a free account and set up your House in minutes.