Events

Creating an event

/event create, and type the time the way you would say it: friday 8pm, tomorrow 19:30, in 3 hours, 25/12 18:00.

Bonki reads it in your timezone and repeats back how it understood you before anyone else sees it. Set yours once with /timezone and it applies everywhere, in every server.

Something ambiguous, friday 5, which could be morning or evening, is refused rather than guessed. An event at the wrong time is worse than one you have to retype.

Who is coming

Members RSVP with buttons and the attendee list updates on the post. Set a capacity and anyone past it joins a waitlist; when somebody drops out the next person is moved up and told.

Turn on approval and people request a place instead, which you accept or decline from a button on the post. They are told either way.

Repeating events

Daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly. The next occurrence is posted when the current one starts, so people can sign up while they are thinking about it.

A repeating event keeps its local time across a clock change, a weekly 19:00 is still 19:00 after the clocks go back, not 18:00.

Editing one asks whether you mean just that occurrence or every future one, because moving a whole series when you meant one week cannot be undone by editing again.

Calendar feed

Off by default. Turn it on and you get a link members can subscribe to in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook; your events then appear in their own calendar automatically.

Calendar apps cannot sign in, so the link itself is the only thing protecting the feed. Treat it like a server invite. If it spreads further than you meant, issue a new one, the old link stops working immediately.

Worth knowing

Everyone sees event times in their own local time, automatically. You never need to write “8pm BST”.

Reminders go out by direct message to everyone marked going or maybe, plus one post in the channel. Members with DMs closed cannot be reached and Discord does not tell us which, that is normal, not a fault.