diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/chats/publicChannels/nip53LiveActivities/ChannelView.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/chats/publicChannels/nip53LiveActivities/ChannelView.kt
index 630cb78aa..d4d41a78d 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/chats/publicChannels/nip53LiveActivities/ChannelView.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/chats/publicChannels/nip53LiveActivities/ChannelView.kt
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ fun LiveActivityChannelView(
                     .weight(1f, true),
         ) {
             ShowVideoStreaming(channel, accountViewModel)
-            NestJoinCard(channel, accountViewModel)
+            NestJoinCard(channel, accountViewModel, nav)
             LiveStreamTopZappers(channel, accountViewModel, nav)
             LiveStreamGoalHeader(channel, accountViewModel, nav)
             RefreshingChatroomFeedView(
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/nests/room/NestJoinCard.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/nests/room/NestJoinCard.kt
index e2610da9a..e5afd5b9f 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/nests/room/NestJoinCard.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/nests/room/NestJoinCard.kt
@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@ package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.screen.loggedIn.nests.room
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Spacer
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.aspectRatio
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.height
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.RoundedCornerShape
 import androidx.compose.material3.Button
 import androidx.compose.material3.Card
@@ -35,36 +39,55 @@ import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
 import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
+import androidx.compose.ui.layout.ContentScale
 import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalContext
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextOverflow
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import coil3.compose.AsyncImage
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.R
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.model.nip53LiveActivities.LiveActivitiesChannel
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.commons.viewmodels.RoomTheme
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.model.LocalCache
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.navs.INav
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.routeFor
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.ClickableUserPicture
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.LoadAddressableNote
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.UsernameDisplay
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.types.MeetingSpaceClosedFlag
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.types.MeetingSpaceOpenFlag
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.types.MeetingSpacePlannedFlag
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.types.MeetingSpacePrivateFlag
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.screen.loggedIn.AccountViewModel
 import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.stringRes
+import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.theme.StdHorzSpacer
 import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip53LiveActivities.meetingSpaces.MeetingSpaceEvent
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip53LiveActivities.meetingSpaces.tags.StatusTag
+import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip53LiveActivities.streaming.tags.ROLE
 
 /**
  * Lobby card rendered in [com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.screen.loggedIn.chats.publicChannels.nip53LiveActivities.ChannelView]
- * for NIP-53 kind 30312 meeting-space events. Shows the room title +
- * summary + a "Join audio room" button that launches [NestActivity].
+ * for NIP-53 kind 30312 meeting-space events. Shows the room cover,
+ * status, summary, host, speaker avatars, and a "Join nest" button.
  *
- * The lobby is intentionally thin: no audio session, no presence event, no
- * hand-raise. All of that lives behind the Join button so the on-the-wire
- * traffic only fires when the user actually wants to be in the room.
+ * The lobby is intentionally thin: no audio session, no presence
+ * event, no hand-raise. All of that lives behind the Join button so
+ * the on-the-wire traffic only fires when the user actually wants to
+ * be in the room.
  *
- * Hidden when the event has no `service` tag — those rooms are hosted on
- * non-nests servers we can't connect to.
+ * Hidden when the event has no `service` tag — those rooms are hosted
+ * on non-nests servers we can't connect to.
  */
 @Composable
 fun NestJoinCard(
     baseChannel: LiveActivitiesChannel,
     accountViewModel: AccountViewModel,
+    nav: INav,
 ) {
     LoadAddressableNote(baseChannel.address, accountViewModel) { addressableNote ->
         addressableNote ?: return@LoadAddressableNote
         val event = addressableNote.event as? MeetingSpaceEvent ?: return@LoadAddressableNote
-        NestJoinCardContent(event, accountViewModel)
+        NestJoinCardContent(event, accountViewModel, nav)
     }
 }
 
@@ -72,6 +95,7 @@ fun NestJoinCard(
 private fun NestJoinCardContent(
     event: MeetingSpaceEvent,
     accountViewModel: AccountViewModel,
+    nav: INav,
 ) {
     val serviceBase = event.service()
     val endpoint = event.endpoint()
@@ -81,51 +105,190 @@ private fun NestJoinCardContent(
     // are missing — those rooms aren't joinable on the audio plane.
     if (serviceBase.isNullOrBlank() || endpoint.isNullOrBlank() || roomId.isBlank()) return
 
-    val context = LocalContext.current
-    val addressValue = remember(event) { event.address().toValue() }
+    val theme = remember(event) { RoomTheme.from(event) }
+    val containerColor =
+        theme.backgroundArgb?.let { Color(it) }
+            ?: MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surfaceVariant
+    val textColor =
+        theme.textArgb?.let { Color(it) }
+            ?: MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant
+    val mutedTextColor = textColor.copy(alpha = 0.7f)
+
+    val image = remember(event) { event.image() }
+    val roomName = remember(event) { event.room() }
+    val summary = remember(event) { event.summary() }
+    val status = remember(event) { event.status() }
+    val starts = remember(event) { event.starts() }
+    val participants = remember(event) { event.participants() }
+    // Host is whoever the kind:30312's `p`-tag explicitly marks `host`,
+    // OR — when the host is implicit (no `p`-tag at all for them) — the
+    // event author. Per EGG-07, the author is the host regardless of
+    // whether they self-tag.
     val hostPubkey = event.pubKey
-    val kind = event.kind
+    val speakers =
+        remember(participants, hostPubkey) {
+            participants.filter { p ->
+                p.pubKey != hostPubkey &&
+                    (p.role.equals(ROLE.SPEAKER.code, true) || p.role.equals(ROLE.MODERATOR.code, true))
+            }
+        }
+    val hostUser = remember(hostPubkey) { LocalCache.getOrCreateUser(hostPubkey) }
 
     Card(
         modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().padding(8.dp),
         shape = RoundedCornerShape(12.dp),
-        colors = CardDefaults.cardColors(containerColor = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surfaceVariant),
+        colors = CardDefaults.cardColors(containerColor = containerColor),
     ) {
-        Column(modifier = Modifier.padding(12.dp)) {
-            event.room()?.let {
-                Text(text = it, style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleMedium)
-            }
-            event.summary()?.let {
-                Text(
-                    text = it,
-                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
-                    color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
+        Column(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth()) {
+            if (!image.isNullOrBlank()) {
+                AsyncImage(
+                    model = image,
+                    contentDescription = null,
+                    modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().aspectRatio(16f / 9f),
+                    contentScale = ContentScale.Crop,
                 )
             }
-            Row(
-                modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().padding(top = 12.dp),
-                horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.End,
-                verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
-            ) {
-                JoinNestButton(event = event, accountViewModel = accountViewModel)
+
+            Column(modifier = Modifier.padding(12.dp)) {
+                Row(
+                    modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+                    verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+                ) {
+                    roomName?.let {
+                        Text(
+                            text = it,
+                            style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleMedium,
+                            color = textColor,
+                            maxLines = 2,
+                            overflow = TextOverflow.Ellipsis,
+                            modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
+                        )
+                    }
+                    Spacer(StdHorzSpacer)
+                    when (status) {
+                        StatusTag.STATUS.OPEN -> {
+                            MeetingSpaceOpenFlag()
+                        }
+
+                        StatusTag.STATUS.PRIVATE -> {
+                            MeetingSpacePrivateFlag()
+                        }
+
+                        StatusTag.STATUS.CLOSED -> {
+                            MeetingSpaceClosedFlag()
+                        }
+
+                        StatusTag.STATUS.PLANNED -> {
+                            MeetingSpacePlannedFlag(starts)
+                        }
+
+                        null -> {}
+                    }
+                }
+
+                summary?.let {
+                    Text(
+                        text = it,
+                        style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodySmall,
+                        color = mutedTextColor,
+                        maxLines = 3,
+                        overflow = TextOverflow.Ellipsis,
+                        modifier = Modifier.padding(top = 4.dp),
+                    )
+                }
+
+                Spacer(Modifier.height(12.dp))
+                Row(verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {
+                    ClickableUserPicture(
+                        baseUser = hostUser,
+                        size = 36.dp,
+                        accountViewModel = accountViewModel,
+                        onClick = { user -> nav.nav(routeFor(user)) },
+                    )
+                    Spacer(StdHorzSpacer)
+                    UsernameDisplay(
+                        baseUser = hostUser,
+                        weight = Modifier.weight(1f),
+                        textColor = textColor,
+                        accountViewModel = accountViewModel,
+                    )
+                    Spacer(StdHorzSpacer)
+                    Text(
+                        text = stringRes(R.string.nest_lobby_host_label),
+                        style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelSmall,
+                        color = mutedTextColor,
+                    )
+                }
+
+                if (speakers.isNotEmpty()) {
+                    Spacer(Modifier.height(8.dp))
+                    Row(
+                        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+                        verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+                    ) {
+                        // Cap visible speaker avatars so the row doesn't
+                        // overflow on rooms with many speakers; the rest
+                        // collapse into a "+N" label.
+                        val cap = 5
+                        val visible = remember(speakers, cap) { speakers.take(cap) }
+                        visible.forEach { tag ->
+                            ClickableUserPicture(
+                                baseUserHex = tag.pubKey,
+                                size = 24.dp,
+                                accountViewModel = accountViewModel,
+                                modifier = Modifier.padding(end = 4.dp),
+                                onClick = { hex ->
+                                    nav.nav(
+                                        com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.navigation.routes.Route
+                                            .Profile(hex),
+                                    )
+                                },
+                            )
+                        }
+                        if (speakers.size > visible.size) {
+                            Text(
+                                text = "+${speakers.size - visible.size}",
+                                style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelSmall,
+                                color = textColor,
+                                modifier = Modifier.padding(start = 4.dp),
+                            )
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                Row(
+                    modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().padding(top = 12.dp),
+                    horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.End,
+                    verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+                ) {
+                    JoinNestButton(
+                        event = event,
+                        accountViewModel = accountViewModel,
+                        primaryColorOverride = theme.primaryArgb?.let { Color(it) },
+                    )
+                }
             }
         }
     }
 }
 
 /**
- * Standalone "Join audio room" button. Reusable from any composable
- * that has a [MeetingSpaceEvent] in hand — the lobby card, the
- * in-feed note renderer (so a `nostr:naddr1...` deep-link to a
- * kind-30312 lands one tap away from the room), and any future
- * room-list surface. Renders nothing for events without a
- * service / endpoint / d-tag — those rooms can't be joined on
- * the audio plane.
+ * Standalone "Join nest" button. Reusable from any composable that has
+ * a [MeetingSpaceEvent] in hand — the lobby card, the in-feed note
+ * renderer (so a `nostr:naddr1...` deep-link to a kind-30312 lands one
+ * tap away from the room), and any future room-list surface. Renders
+ * nothing for events without a service / endpoint / d-tag — those
+ * rooms can't be joined on the audio plane.
+ *
+ * [primaryColorOverride] lets the lobby card paint the button with
+ * the room's themed primary color (`["c", hex, "primary"]`); other
+ * call sites pass null and get the platform default.
  */
 @Composable
 fun JoinNestButton(
     event: MeetingSpaceEvent,
     accountViewModel: AccountViewModel,
+    primaryColorOverride: Color? = null,
 ) {
     val serviceBase = event.service()
     val endpoint = event.endpoint()
@@ -137,18 +300,30 @@ fun JoinNestButton(
     val hostPubkey = event.pubKey
     val kind = event.kind
 
-    Button(onClick = {
-        NestBridge.set(accountViewModel)
-        NestActivity.launch(
-            context = context,
-            addressValue = addressValue,
-            authBaseUrl = serviceBase,
-            endpoint = endpoint,
-            hostPubkey = hostPubkey,
-            roomId = roomId,
-            kind = kind,
-        )
-    }) {
+    val colors =
+        if (primaryColorOverride != null) {
+            androidx.compose.material3.ButtonDefaults
+                .buttonColors(containerColor = primaryColorOverride)
+        } else {
+            androidx.compose.material3.ButtonDefaults
+                .buttonColors()
+        }
+
+    Button(
+        onClick = {
+            NestBridge.set(accountViewModel)
+            NestActivity.launch(
+                context = context,
+                addressValue = addressValue,
+                authBaseUrl = serviceBase,
+                endpoint = endpoint,
+                hostPubkey = hostPubkey,
+                roomId = roomId,
+                kind = kind,
+            )
+        },
+        colors = colors,
+    ) {
         Text(stringRes(R.string.nest_join))
     }
 }
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/res/values/strings.xml b/amethyst/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
index 5906489c6..c3324cac1 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@
     <string name="nest_notification_text">Tap to return.</string>
     <string name="nest_notification_stop">Stop</string>
     <string name="nest_join">Join nest</string>
+    <string name="nest_lobby_host_label">Host</string>
     <string name="nest_leave">Leave</string>
     <string name="nest_leave_host_title">End this nest?</string>
     <string name="nest_leave_host_body">You\'re the host. Closing the room will disconnect everyone. Choose \"Just leave\" if you want to come back later — the room will auto-close after 8 hours of inactivity.</string>