Feed, Friends & Notifications
GamerHosts has a social layer around competition: follow players, post to the feed, and get pinged when it's your turn to play.
Feed
Feed shows posts and activity from people you follow — event announcements, results, and community posts.
- Posting is plain text plus links; keep it clean — posts are screened automatically and anything reported lands in the moderation queue.
- Event pages and profiles have share actions so results and ranks can travel (rank cards render as link previews on other platforms).
Friends & follows
- Follow any public profile to get their activity in your feed.
- Friends are mutual follows; mini-game invites can go to friends or to Discord contacts.
- Blocking a player (the Block link on their profile) removes the follow and the friendship both ways, prevents new ones, and hides each of you from the other's feed and comment threads. Blocks are silent — the other player is not notified. Unblock from the same profile.
- Reporting a profile, post, or comment sends it to a person on our team. See the FAQ for what happens next.
Notifications
Everything that needs your attention lands in the Notifications page, and the important ones also arrive by email and push:
| Notification | When it fires |
|---|---|
| Match ready | Your next match is set and waiting |
| Event starting | An event you entered is about to begin |
| Invite received | Team invite, mini-game invite, or similar |
| Rank climb | You moved up a leaderboard tier |
| New follower | Someone followed your profile |
| Host application decision | Your host application was approved or rejected |
| Event trending | An event you follow is heating up |
Push notifications
Two flavors, one inbox:
- Browser push — toggle it on the Notifications page. Works even when the tab is closed.
- Mobile push — comes with the mobile app (Expo) once you've logged in there.
If pushes stop arriving, check: browser notification permission is still granted, you're logged in on that device, and (mobile) the app has notification permission in system settings.
Head-to-head & trophy case
- Compare (
/players/<you>/vs/<them>) — side-by-side stats against any other player. - Trophy case — pin achievements to your profile from the dashboard. Pinned achievements are public on public profiles.
Still stuck? Contact us. Is something down? Check the status page.