I’m a regular at a local BG hub and until now people keep planning sessions via a whatsapp group. This creates a few problems, such as people asking for players for a game, and then random messages pushing their message out of screen, so people don’t notice. Basically there’s a lot of people who have games who want to play specific games and people who want to play those games, and I want to find a more efficient way to organize this.

Is there any software that does this? Preferrably open source and self-hostable. I thought I’d try asking first before I bite the bullet and write it myself.

  • JustAPenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I think the simplest suggestion would be a discord server (or similar. I’m not familiar with open source alternatives). You can set up channels for people looking for games, roles for people who want to be pinged about games, etc.

    It comes with some drawbacks, like needing to maintain and moderate the server. But if it’s only advertised locally, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work out.