Welcome to the Watch Party community!
This community will focus on movie watch parties as a niche, as to not step on the toes of other communities that will host their own live threads for events such as sports and television.
Here’s how to get started:
- 6-12 hours before you’d like to start a watch party, make a party announcement here to let everyone know.
- 1 hour before the watch party starts, create a live thread so that everyone can discuss and react to the movie in real time.
- Once the credits roll, feel free to create a post party discussion to talk about the movie as a whole.
Tips:
- Every party participant is responsible for finding their own copy of the movie, feel free to post links or recommendations to legal sources of the movie in the announcement post. You can also stream your legally obtained copy of the movie on our official Discord server, see below or the sidebar for the invite link.
- Be ready to press play at the movie start time, so that discussion can be as in sync as possible in the live thread.
- Sort comments and posts by “New” to stay up to date on parties and discussions.
Standards
- Use the MM/DD date format, and 24 hour time format in UTC. Here’s a handy time zone converter you can use if you’re unfamiliar with UTC.
- The title should include the year (ex. 2023) the movie was released. It seems like every movie is a remake these days, and this will prevent any confusion.
- Use the templates below to help keep the discussions organized.
Post Templates:
Announcements: Watch Party: Movie Title (YYYY) - MM/DD 00:00 UTC
- Example: Watch Party: Starship Troopers (1997) - 07/03 00:00 UTC
Live Threads: LIVE THREAD: Movie Title (YYYY) - MM/DD 00:00 UTC
- Example: LIVE THREAD: Starship Troopers (1997) - 07/03 00:00 UTC
Post Party Discussion: Post Party Discussion: Movie Title (YYYY)
- Example: Post Party Discussion: Starship Troopers (1997)
If you’d like to stream your movie for others to watch, you can join our official Discord server. All participants are muted, and discussion will occur in the LIVE thread. Be sure to include the invite link to the Discord server in your announcement and live thread posts, so others know they can join in on the fun!