Communities — early
The same spine, pointed at a community
Who belongs, what they may do, what is scheduled, and where the results go. We run it for our own competitive gaming community first; it is on the Pro plan for yours.
A community is an organisation with different words. Rename Customers to Players and Jobs to Scrims, and the dashboard, the portal and the public site follow. Nothing about the community layer needed a new kind of thing: a player is a person who agreed to be seen, and a scrim is scheduled work with a result. That is not a shortcut; it is the point. The parts that run a contractor are the parts that run a league.
What exists today
A roster of people who agreed to be on it
A player is listed publicly only after they consented. The roster block on your site shows the names and game identities they chose to share.
Consent recorded, per person
Steam and Discord identities, if shared
Unlist anyone at any time
Scrims with a result
Schedule a scrim like any other appointment. When it is played, the result is a report with named numbers — 16–9, say — that the schedule shows and the totals add up.
Scheduled like anything else
Results as numbers, not prose
Upcoming public events on your site
A bot in the room you already use
Install the Illustrious bot on your Discord server and pick a channel. Scrims are announced there with sign-up and withdraw buttons, and scores are posted when they are in. Discord is the room; Illustrious is the record.
One install, one channel
Sign up and withdraw from Discord
Scores posted when recorded
Standing, decided by players
A /vouch command in Discord lets players vouch for each other, and a scrim can require a number of vouches to join. Flags work the other way. Both are recorded as who and when — a record, not a rating nobody can appeal.
/vouch in your server
Vouches needed, set per scrim
A record, not a rating
What is not built yet
Teams, leagues and seasons. Match-making. Anything that verifies a game identity is really yours. A community for people learning to build things. They are named here so the direction is visible; none has a date, and we will say when each ships rather than before.
Questions
Which plan includes it?
Pro. The roster and standing are part of managing your people; the Discord bot is the community feature Pro adds. We run this for our own community on the same code.
Do my members have to install anything?
No. You install one bot on your server, once. Members use the buttons and the /vouch command in Discord as they would anything else there.
Is it only for games?
No. Anything with members, a schedule and results runs on it, and the words are yours to set. Games are where we started because it is our own community.