Group Chat question

[Shobu]

How can i send message for sharing table through group chat?

I sometimes see popup like "Bread&Beer Tablexxx", but where can i do this for:

99
https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=5331935 (the group is not listed in the seachengine btw ?!)

DouDiZhu
https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=13159308

Skat
https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=2608799

[Bray]

Your links are all private groups, so whatever you're trying to show us isn't going to work.

Are you sure you're not just seeing someone pasting a game URL into the group's "Recent Activity - Say Something" box?

[Shobu]

Private groups? Those are the group associated with the BGA implementation, and listed in the community listing (well, except the 99 one,for a unknown reason). I guess they are public? Pretty weird you can't access those...

>Are you sure you're not just seeing someone pasting a game URL into the group's "Recent Activity - Say Something" box?
Yes i suppose they are doing so, my question is about the fact that 3 groups above don't have that ""Recent Activity - Say Something" box" / Chat. How can i reach other players for the games above?

[Jellby]

These are "X players" groups, which automatically include all players who have played X. They're "private", but you can "join" just by playing the game. However, you cannot write posts to the group, I don't think you can send chat messages either. Perhaps what you see is sent by admins (maybe they're not even aware they're admins)? Or maybe they're for a different group, or just "general messages"? Or it could be a glitch, or a workaround I don't find.

[Shobu]

I received this message from the "BeerBreadgroup" (associated to the Alphagame).
I did a post just now and sent a broadcast by typing in its chat (you can see the chat history there). Maybe it's only allowed for alpha games? ( but I received such messages from the 99group in the past, and it was not in alpha)

[Shobu]

Any clues about how getting the chat for sharing tables?
BGA has a superb card game library, but matchmaking is in very poor shape and tricktaking has mutated into a weird 2p turn-based experience

[Shobu]

how can we reach other players to share live table?

[Hervor]

If you create a Manual Table using the Play Now page you have the option to invite a friend or - after you have opened the table for other players - you can click on the "X number of players available for this game" icon and send invites to people that are online and have your game as one of their favorites.
In my experience the second feature was used quite a lot before the automatic tables were introduced. Since then as far as I can remember I haven't received such an invite even once , so no idea how receptive people are to these 'random' invites nowadays.

[Shobu]

oh i never noticed that, thanks for the info. Could it be the table invit message i received? Gonna try and investigate that ..

I also noticed that when you open a table, there's a "Players around this table now: Chat" button. What does the "around" refer to? Players who sat on the table, or players from the group?

[Meeplelowda]

oh i never noticed that, thanks for the info. Could it be the table invit message i received? Gonna try and investigate that ..

I also noticed that when you open a table, there's a "Players around this table now: Chat" button. What does the "around" refer to? Players who sat on the table, or players from the group?

I think it's players who have joined the table. So you can discuss things like "hey, do you mind if we start with fewer than X players?"

I used the "players available for this game" invite feature for really unpopular games. Occasionally it works.