Watch group invitations

Quickly send out a link for others to join your watch group.

Note: This only works for users that are already authorized on the server.
You need an invitation to get them on the server.

When you are in side a watch group, you have the "Create invite" button available.

After clicking it, you will get a invitation creator window:

Check and update any information that is not correct.
The most important fields are the server address and group name.

The server name doesn't have to match someone's server list, it is usually just the name the server owner picked.
Someone can rename the server on their side.

If the receiving user doesn't have a server with the given address on their list, they will be warned but can still try to accept. Of course they have to be added/authorized on the server you are inviting them to join, as mentioned at the start.

You may have a server address in the form of a direct IP address or a mire friendly IP address.
It's best to keep it consistent between users to not have issues with warnings later.

The group name should always be correct and is the name that the receiving users will look for after joining the server.

User Redirection page

This option embeds the invitation inside a parameter on a redirect website.
The main player domain is providing the "protocol-redirect.watchtogetherplayer.com" endpoint which expects the "invite" parameter to be set containing the invitations.

This allows less technical users to simply click the link so their browser opens it and redirects to a custom "URL Protocol" which the player registers after starting if the user allows it.

User markdown

This option embeds the final URL inside markdown syntax allowing it to appear as "Watch Together Invitation" instead of the whole blob of text as a link, in places where it's supported like Discord.

Accepting

On platforms where URL Protocol handling is implemented (Windows at the time of writing), users can simply click the link and tell their browser to open it in the application.

If a given platform doesn't support the protocol yet, they have to copy the link and open up server settings where they will find "Accept" buttons for both server and watch group invitations.

The popup should automatically paste in the invitation when it appears if you copied it before, if not, paste it in the text field inside.

If everything works as expected, the user will get a popup asking them if they accept the invitation:

Once they accept, they get connected to the server and automatically join the watch group with the given name.