The table: playing in the new version

In the new version, the session room is a table. Your team sits around it as small figures wearing their Jira photos. Cards go down face down and turn over together when voting finishes. If you prefer a list, the List view is one click away.

The table and the List view

• Sessions open at the table unless you choose List. The View switch at the right of the table’s top bar has Table and List.
• The List view shows the same people in the same order, each one’s role and card (face down until the reveal), the gallery, and the result after the reveal. Your cards, Up next and the toolbar stay where they are, so everything works the same way.
• Your view is yours alone: nothing changes for anyone else. To open every session as a list, open Settings (the gear icon), choose Room view, and under Open sessions in choose List. This choice is saved in this browser.

Playing at the table

• Seats: you sit at the bottom, and the other players sit around the table, in the same order for everyone. The Host runs the session, and people who only watch sit in the Gallery. A session holds up to 8 people, the gallery included (the free plan’s limit).
• Your cards: pick a card. It goes down face down in front of your figure, and nobody sees its value until voting finishes.
• The reveal: when the host chooses Finish Voting, the cards turn over and gather into stacks by value. The middle of the table shows the most common card, the average and the spread, or “Everyone chose 5” when all the cards match.
• Up next lists the session’s issues. Yardsticks, the reference issues, sit by the estimate scale on the table’s edge, and Look-alikes are done issues that were estimated with the value you point at.
• After the reveal: only the host sees a hint on whom to ask first. If your card differed from most, only you are asked whether you want to share what you’re seeing, with Add a note or Not now.
• Correspondence tables: in an async session, each seat shows how many of the issues that person has played.

Table style

Table style, at the top right of the table, changes how the table looks on your own screen. Nobody else’s table changes. Your choice is saved in this browser for each Jira project. While you are at the table, Table style under Settings, Room view, names your look and opens the same choices.

• Looks: Study, Library, Loft, Rooftop, Studio and Simple. Each one sets a room, a felt, a rail and a rail light together, and you can change any of them after. The table starts with Study.
• Room: the scene behind the table: Study, Library, Loft, Rooftop, Studio or Plain. Each room has its own version for the light and the dark theme.
• Felt: Emerald, Lagoon, Sapphire, Plum, Graphite or Classic (the table’s original felt), and Night once your team has settled 100 issues together and earned the Hundred club.
• Rail: Walnut, Cognac, Ebony or Graphite. Rail light: Brand, Felt, White or Off.
• Still background: on (the default), every room stays still. Off, some rooms drift slowly, such as clouds or dust in the light. If your device is set to reduce motion, nothing drifts.
• Simple table: flat colours, with no room, texture or glow. It is easier on a slow laptop.
• Reset to default goes back to the look the table started with.

Player cards, achievements and stats

At your first visit to the table, your player card starts, and one line says so once: “From now on, your achievements and stats count at every table, and your team sees them. Change it any time on your player card.” It closes by itself. While a Jira admin has Achievements and stats turned off, no card starts at the table: saving your figure starts it, and nothing is counted. If you deleted your card, saving your figure doesn’t start a new one; your card then offers Start my player card.

• Click any figure to open that person’s player card. Yours shows your achievements, your stats from every table (tables joined, cards played, correspondence rounds finished, notes left and thanks given) and the look of your figure.
• Achievements come from explaining, asking, thanking and including, never from speed or from being right. Some unlock items for your figure, which are cosmetic only.
• Only you see your card mix (the values you play most often) and the thanks you received.
• Reset my stats starts your counters, card mix and achievements again from zero. Unlocked items stay yours.
• Delete my player card removes your card and everything on it, and nothing more is counted for you. No new card starts unless you start one with Start my player card: it is on your own card and, except while a Jira admin has Achievements and stats turned off, under Settings, Room view, and on your dashboard.
• Both are on your own card, and both ask before they change anything. Delete my player card is also under Settings, Room view, after Hide my achievements and stats, and it works while a Jira admin has Achievements and stats turned off.
• Say thanks on a teammate’s card sends them a thank-you, and only they see who thanked them. At each table, you can thank each person once, and up to three people.
• Some achievements belong to the whole team, such as Full table when everyone plays a round. Everyone at the table sees a short team moment, and nobody is ranked. Team stats are counted per Jira project, never per person, and only show with 3 or more people.

Who sees what

• People at your tables see your achievements, stats and figure on your player card. With Hide mine, they see only your figure and your vote.
• Your card mix and the thanks you received are only ever yours.
• Hide mine is at the bottom of your player card, and under Settings, Room view, as Hide my achievements and stats. You can change it any time.
• A Jira admin can turn Achievements and stats off for the whole site. Nothing is then counted or shown. What was counted is kept, so turning it back on restores it.

Reactions and the confidence check

• Six positive reactions sit in the corner of the table. A reaction shows above your own figure for 2 seconds and is never aimed at anyone. You can send one every 2 seconds.
• After a reveal, the table asks a quick confidence check, such as “How sure are we about 5?”, with Confident and Unsure. Your answer shows on your figure, and you can change it.

Reduced motion and screen readers

If your device is set to reduce motion, the table makes every change instantly, the reveal too. Screen readers hear the seats as a list, starting with you, and the List view shows the whole table as a list.

Your data

Your player card, your team’s counts and your answers to the confidence check are kept on our servers (your answers with the session). Reactions, and who is at the table right now, are never stored. Delete my player card deletes your card, your place in team tables and your answers to the confidence check on this site, and keeps only a note that you chose to have no card (your account ID and the date), so no new card starts by itself; Start my player card removes the note. The cards you played, your notes and your team’s counts stay. If your Atlassian account is closed, Atlassian’s personal data reporting tells the app, and your player card, your answers and that note are deleted. Your data and history has the rest.