Scheduling
Not everyone can play right now. Scheduling lets members set up a group for later, up to a week ahead, and have the bot round everyone up when it's time.
Creating a scheduled session
/lfg and Create Group ask Playing now or Schedule? — as the first question the first time a member makes a group for a game, and as a switch on their saved-filters panel every time after. Picking Schedule there, the Schedule Group button on a schedule-only LFG channel, and the Schedule button on a group's control panel all open the same form with two fields:
Time (flexible input)
The time field understands natural language, so members can type it however feels natural:
18:0020:30 tmrw10am Sattonight22→ interpreted as22:00
Shorthand like tmrw, 2day, and tonite is understood automatically.
Timezone
A dropdown lists timezones as GMT±offset (Cities) and is daylight-saving-aware. The member's saved timezone is pre-selected and remembered for next time.
The 7-day limit
Sessions can be scheduled up to 7 days ahead. Times in the past are rejected, and anything more than a week out is rejected too.
What happens as the session approaches
A scheduled session lives as a joinable event that others can sign up for. Then, automatically:
- Shortly before start time, the bot posts a one-time reminder with Start, Cancel, and Leave buttons.
- At start time:
- If only the owner joined, the event is auto-cancelled.
- If others joined, it auto-converts into a live "playing now" group and pings everyone.
Owners can also manually Start, Cancel, or Leave at any point via the buttons.
Inviting interested players
When enabled (main server only), the bot DMs up to 15 players who historically play that game around that time of day, inviting them to the scheduled session. This respects each member's mute setting and a cooldown so it never becomes spammy.
Scheduling has to be enabled per game
On a server with an LFG channel for the game, scheduling follows that channel's setup: an admin picks the Schedule option, the Playing now option, or both in Step 1 — Game Options.
- With both picked, members are asked Playing now or Schedule? — wherever on the server they type
/lfg, since the group is posted to that LFG channel either way. - With only one picked, the question is already answered and is never asked. A schedule-only channel keeps its Schedule Group button, as that is its only way in.
A server with no LFG channel for the game has switched nothing off, so /lfg there offers both.
Limits and settings
- One active scheduled event per member at a time.