Creating game for group members and letting them know there is a game to join

[JoysJoy]

Huh. I find it very useful for 20 friends or even more friends. As long as they are on the list, they can register with or without the link. If they are on my friends list, it takes 2 seconds each person to click to invite. Not sure why you think it is not. You can put a blub on the friends group page about it and no one else reading it but those specific friends can register

There aren't many games which support 20 players. If you have 20 friends online and you want to play a 4-player game, the direct invitation method requires you to choose which individuals to invite.

Yes, that was what I was thinking, but wondered if I missed something. If I have 20 friends (or 20 people in a group), and I want to play a 4p game with whoever is interested, I can't say, hey guys, I opened this game for you, feel free to join if you want to play with me. Things ALMOST support that - you can limit a game to a community, and open a game without choosing players, but you just can't notify them that the game is there (without some external tool like Discord).

I plan tournaments quite often for my friends. Some larger, some smaller.

[nik592]

I plan tournaments quite often for my friends. Some larger, some smaller.

OK sure, I understand you can invite as many people to a tournament as you want, but a tournament is a series of games, not simply a single game, so it's quite a different prospect.

[SonicQuack]

Just chiming in to add to the gravitas.
This feature is exactly what BGA needs.

[sum1els]

Just to second the suggestion: our group uses Discord. It's free at small scale, fairly easy to use, and lets us voice chat during games. (It does have weird issues with microphone and speaker selection from time to time, but you get the hang of fixing that pretty quickly.) You can even create different channels for text chat and posting links to games to keep things tidy.