Using Sesh to Plan Events
Lately, we’ve been trying out a Discord bot called Sesh, which helps us get RSVPs for events and send out reminders — independent of your timezone. Currently, Sesh events are set up in our #live-event-text channel, though that’s subject to change.
RSVPing to Sesh Events
An event is going to happen, and you’d like to take part! Welcome! We’re happy to have you!
Whenever someone sets up an event, Sesh posts a big message that looks something like this:
Sesh reacts to its own message with three emojis: ✅, 🕐, and 📝. You can click these reactions to RSVP or to get a personalized timezone conversion.
✅: Click this reaction to provide your RSVP for the event. Sesh will privately message you to set up (optional) reminders for the event. If the event organizer changes any details, Sesh will notify you. If you want to unRSVP, click the ✅ emote again.
🕐: When you click this reaction, Sesh will privately message you the event’s time in your personal timezone. This requires you to set up your timezone with Sesh — the bot will walk you through setting your timezone in your direct messages.
📝: Click this reaction to edit your event. You can only do this if you created the event, or if you’re a server admin.
Creating and Managing Sesh Events
So you’d like to organize an event! That’s great! Once you’ve figured out when it should happen, you should create a Sesh event so others can start RSVPing!
To create a Sesh event, you’ll want to go to #live-event-text or whichever channel is the most appropriate and use the !create
command. Here are a few examples of !create
commands you could use:
!create React Podcast Listening Party on January 27 at 12pm PST
!create Rust Book Club on Wednesday at 7pm
!create Building an Eleventy Community Calendar tomorrow 11am to 12:30pm
There are probably other things you could do — the natural language processing on these commands seems pretty intuitive.
If you’ve created an event that you’d now like to modify or delete, click the 📝 reaction on Sesh’s message. Sesh will privately message you something that looks like this:
To edit the event, click the provided link. To delete the event, react to Sesh’s message with both the wastebasket and the checkmark emojis that Sesh has provided.
#sesh
url fragment
Event urls have a hidden section with pre-filled command for creating a sesh event in Discord. Append #sesh
to an event url to make it visible.
I need a bit more information!
You can find Sesh’s full list of commands at sesh.fyi/manual. Most of these commands require server admin privileges, however.