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Communities are public places and organisations for board gamers: a local community, a club, or a café with a game library you can browse before you visit.

Playing with friends?

A private gaming group for you and your friends works differently. See Gaming groups.

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Find communities

Open Communities from the main menu to browse communities on a map or a list. Filter by Community Types and Location. See Explore. Communities you are part of are listed under Social in the main menu for quick access.

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Community types

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Join a community

Open a community page and use the button under its image. What it says depends on the community’s membership policy:
  • Follow: you follow the community to get updates.
  • Join: you become a member straight away.
  • Request Membership: the owner or a moderator must approve you. The button shows Request Pending until they do.
Once you are in, the button shows Joined. If someone shares a link to a community with you, just open it.

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Inside a community

A community page has tabs. Which tabs you see depends on the community’s settings and your role.
  • Overview: the community’s own front page. See Customize your community.
  • Library: the games you can play there. You get all the Search filters, so you can find a two-player game under an hour in seconds.
  • Chat: talk with the other members.
  • Members: who is in the community.
  • Events: upcoming events held at the community. See Events.
On the Search page, communities you belong to that have a game library appear under Collections, so you can search a café’s library alongside your friends’ shelves.

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Add a place you love

Know a great café or bar that isn’t on Kallax.io yet? Put it on the map so others can find it.
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Start

Open Communities from the main menu and select Add.
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Pick a type

Choose the type that fits best, then I love this place and would like to share it!
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Add the details

Enter a Name, a Description of 20 to 256 characters, and pick a Location from the suggestions so it can be shown on the map. Add their Website if they have one. Select Add place.
The place is listed on the map straight away. Its page shows that it isn’t using Kallax.io yet, and people can follow it to hear if it joins. It has no owner, members, chat or library. You can add a limited number of places per day.
Run one of these places? Contact us in the Official chat, on Discord or at admin@kallax.io to claim the page.

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Create and run a community

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Start

Open Communities from the main menu and select Add.
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Pick a type

Choose the type that fits best, then I am the owner or official representative! You need a complete profile for this. A guest account is not enough.
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Add the details

Enter a Name of 4 to 64 characters, a Description of 20 to 256 characters, a Location picked from the suggestions, and an optional Website.
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Choose a library mode

  • Library: use your own collection as the community’s library.
  • None: no game library.
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Choose a membership policy

  • Follow: anyone can follow for updates.
  • Members: join requests are approved automatically.
  • Moderated: join requests need approval.
Select Create, and you land on the new community’s Manage tab.
Hobbyists can own one group or community. Enthusiasts can own more. Places you added for others don’t count. See Account types.

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Manage a community

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Members and roles

Community members have one of these roles: Owner, Moderator, Member or Follower. In tab settings, owners and moderators together are called Staff. In the Members tab, owners and moderators can:
  • Copy the community’s link to invite people.
  • Accept or Reject people who asked to join.
  • Change role or Kick user from a member’s menu.
  • Tick Show followers to include followers in the list. The box only appears when the community has followers.
Moderators can only change people to Member or Follower, and can’t change the role of owners or other moderators. Owners can kick moderators and members, and moderators can kick members. Followers can’t be kicked.

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Settings

Owners open the Manage tab to:
  • Change the image, name, description, website, location and membership policy.
  • Turn tabs on or off and choose who sees them: Everyone, Members or Staff.
  • Choose which tab opens first under Default Tab.
  • Choose whose events show on the Events tab with Show events from.
New communities show Events and the Library (when there is one) to everyone, and Chat to members. The Overview tab starts off. The Members tab depends on the type:

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Discoverability

New communities are Unlisted: only people with the link can find them. Make the community Listed under Manage > Discoverability to show it on Explore and let search engines find it. To be listed, the community needs:
  • An image of its own.
  • A description of at least 50 characters.
  • A location that can be shown on the map. This can be a city.

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Overview page

The Overview tab is the community’s front page. Turn it on under Manage > Overview and choose who sees it, then build it from modules such as links, a map, upcoming events and staff picks. See Customize your community.

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Kiosk mode

Cafés, stores and bars can turn a tablet into a screen where guests browse the game library without being able to change it. See Kiosk mode.