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The night feed: what happened, not just who won
Nobody remembers a win rate. They remember the turn Tessa went infinite off a card everyone had read wrong. The feed is where that turn gets written down while it is still happening, with the round and the cards attached.
What a scoreboard misses
Standings are a real answer to a real question, and they are also the least interesting record of an evening you could keep. "Maya 2, Daniel 1, Sam 0" is true and tells you nothing about the night. It does not contain the turn that decided game two, the deal that fell apart in game three, or the reason four people are still laughing about a Fog.
The feed is the other half of that record. Every gathering has its own timeline, and posts, moments, replies, reactions and mentions all land on it. The night ends up with a record of what was said and what happened, not only of what was scored. The scoreboard half →
Moments: a claim with evidence attached
A moment is not a status update. It is a logged claim that something specific happened, and it carries the things that make it checkable later: the round it happened in, the cards that did it, and a photo if you want one (images are a Premium feature). The spotlight card thumbnails on a moment open the real card, which is what lets somebody read it six months later and actually follow what went on.
The round is part of it. "Turn four" and "turn eleven" are two completely different stories about the same combo, and a note written in a group chat afterward never has that number in it.
The cards are part of it. Naming the cards makes the moment survive the table's memory of which card it actually was, which is usually the first detail to go.
It is logged while it is happening. Everything about the feature is arranged around writing it down at the table, because a moment nobody logs is a story that gets retold badly three weeks later or not at all.
Each moment carries the game and round it happened in, and the cards or photo that go with it
Epic turns
Some turns are obviously bigger than the rest of the night, and those are exactly the ones a table is too busy reacting to write down. So the app prompts somebody to write the turn up when it spots one, and pushes it to the rest of the table when they do.
That push matters more than it sounds. At a night with several pods running, the best play of the evening happened at a table most people were not sitting at, and without something carrying it across the room, they simply never hear about it.
Reactions, replies and being named
The feed takes replies and reactions, and both generate a push: one when the table logs something big, one when somebody reacts to something of yours. That is a deliberately short list. A phone that buzzes all evening gets silenced, and then it is not carrying anything at all.
Mentions are stored as mentions rather than being scraped back out of the text later. That is the difference between an @ that reliably reaches the person named and one that mostly works, and it is also what makes mentions switchable on their own: you can turn off everything except being named, without going to the operating system and turning the app off entirely.
What survives the night
The feed stays attached to its gathering, alongside the games, the standings and the participants, so a past night reads as an evening rather than as rows in a results table. How gatherings work →
On Premium, an AI recap is written from that night afterward, in a narrator voice you pick, and a digest email goes to the people who were there. The recap is written from the same material the feed holds, which is the practical argument for logging moments at all: a night with three moments in it produces a recap about those three moments, and a night with none produces a recap about a scoreboard. How AI recaps are written →
Who this is for
Playgroups whose group chat is already half Magic stories, badly reconstructed
Nights with several pods, where half the room misses the best turn of the evening
Anyone who wants a recap worth reading, which means giving it something to work from
Stores and leagues that want their night to have a story, not just a standings sheet
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a moment and a post?
A post is something somebody said. A moment is a logged claim that something happened, and it carries structure with it: the round it happened in, the cards involved, and optionally a photo. The card thumbnails on a moment open the real card, so a moment stays readable months later to someone who was not there.
Do I have to stop playing to log a moment?
No, and that is the design constraint the whole feature is built around. Logging a moment is a short interruption taken while it is happening, because the alternative is nobody writing anything down and the turn being retold badly three weeks later.
What is an epic turn?
When a turn is unusually big, the app prompts somebody to write it up, and pushes it to the rest of the table when they do. It is the same mechanism as a moment aimed at the one turn per night that people are actually going to keep talking about.
Do photos on moments cost anything?
The moment itself is free. Attaching images to one is a Premium feature, as are the separate mid-game board state photos, because storing and serving pictures is the part with a real running cost behind it.
Does anyone actually get told when I react to their moment?
Yes, and only for the things worth interrupting somebody for: a push when the table logs something big, and a push when somebody reacts to yours. Mentions are recorded as real mentions rather than parsed out of the text, so an @ reaches the person named and can be switched off on its own without turning off everything else.
What happens to the feed after the night ends?
It stays with the gathering, which is what a past night is made of: the games, the standings, the feed and the recap in one place. On Premium the AI recap is written from that evening, in a narrator voice you choose.
Write the turn down while it is still happening.
Moments with the round and the cards attached, epic turns pushed to the whole room, and a recap at the end. Free to start.
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