While this wasn’t clear at the time, we eventually learned that extra people can log in, but will be restrict to the chat function. (We had two people at the event running “Hangout nodes”, and eventually I had to log off to make room, but then it became clear that I needed to be logged in at least to respond to chat messages, and when I tried it said “due to the number of participants you are automatically muted).
Expected symmetry and limitations on the number of participants happened to it.
While this wasn’t clear at the time, we eventually learned that extra people can log in, but will be restrict to the chat function. (We had two people at the event running “Hangout nodes”, and eventually I had to log off to make room, but then it became clear that I needed to be logged in at least to respond to chat messages, and when I tried it said “due to the number of participants you are automatically muted).