Watch Party

Anyone in the Tablestory Discord can propose a watch party in any show channel (e.g., in the #nocturne channel, you can post: "Anyone want to watch Ep. 8 tomorrow at 8am EST?"). You can post the same message in the #watch-party-spoilers-beware channel, but be warned that all messages in this channel get deleted at 12am EST, so perhaps only do this if you're watching on the same day you're posting. After posting and gathering people, head on over to the Tavern: https://tavern.tablestory.tv/.

## The Tavern

Tablestory has a sub-website where one viewer can be the Leader, and queue up a show to watch. You can add a YouTube video, or even a playlist. Twitch VODs and livestreams are also playable (sometimes). Other viewers can join that room and watch at the same time. The website makes sure that everyone is watching within about two seconds of each other (configurable).

### Register

You can either enter as a Guest with a guest login, or you can register and create an account. As a Guest, you can enter channels and view content. However, if you register and create an account, you can also register your own channel.

### Leader: Things to know

The "Leader" is the person who is in charge of the viewing. It doesn't have to be the same person that made the channel, but the channel creator is the one who gives out Leader.

#### Channel Creators: Give yourself Leader!

You need to make sure to "Give Leader" to someone, if you want them to be able to control the video and have others sync to them. Simply click on their username in the left column to view the options below.

If you don't give yourself (or someone) Leader, then you cannot pause or skip over breaks in shows -- if you try to, the sync software will put you back to where you "should" be, and start playing if you paused.

#### Speed Settings

If the Leader sets a speed to view at something other than 1.0, they should make sure everyone else knows what speed they are using.

Other viewers can manually set their speed to match the primary viewer. Otherwise, the playback won't quite match up, and every few seconds they may "jump" or "skip" slightly to match the timestamp of the primary viewer.

Common viewing speeds are 1.0, 1.25, or maybe 1.5.

### Chat Features

#### Spoiler Text

You can spoiler text a whole line with: /sp spoiler-stuff-here

Or: other text [sp]spoiler text[/sp] other text

#### Action Emoting

You can "emote" as if you are doing something with IRC-style. If Pumpkinberry types:

```
 /me dances around

```

Everyone would see:

```
 *Pumpkinberry dances around*

```

#### Chat Text Formatting

* Bold: You can bold by putting \***asterisks**\* around your text
* Italics: Put *\_underscores*\_ around text.

#### Emojis

You can use emojis on mobile, or open the Emoji window on PC with: [windows key] + [.] (period)

It is also possible to upload custom emojis/memes to the site. This is still under development.

#### Private Chats

In the top left, you can click on someone's name to open a private chat.

#### Blocking/Ignoring

In the top left, you can click on someone's name to ignore them.

### Channel Formatting / CSS

From Kujio:
"if you want to do some custom css for your channels i've added some css to the chat if you want alternating lines of chat to be different colors"

```
#chatwrap .even {
    background: rgb(10,40,8);
}

```

### Spoilers like Discord

You can now do spoilers like on discord

You need to add a custom chat filter for your channel

For the regex put

```

```

For flags put

```
 gi

```

And for replacement put

```
<span class="spoiler">\1</span>

```

### CyTube

The Tavern is powered by CyTube. More documentation here:
https://github.com/calzoneman/sync/wiki

## Obsolete?: Discord Independent Viewing Watch Parties

Use the designated #watch-party-spoilers-beware channel to view an episode together! Everyone individually pulls up the VOD and one person (typically the first-time viewer) posts the timestamp for everyone else (typically the re-watching viewers) to sync up to. Check the #info channel for instructions and guidelines.