Find an event and join

Gathin has hundreds of events. Finding one, opening its page and saving your spot takes a few minutes.

Discover events

When you are signed in, the homepage opens straight onto events: Featured Events, the ones drawing the most interest across communities right now, at the top, and Upcoming Events, grouped day by day, below them. Events in the top menu opens the list of upcoming events, and it is also how you browse without signing in. Workshops, meetups, conferences and community gatherings all appear here.

There are a few ways to narrow things down:

• Pick the event type from the menu beside the list's title: All Events, In-person, or Online.
• Press the calendar icon and pick a day to see only that day's events. Clear removes the filter.
• When you are signed in, the ticket icon (Registered Events) shows only the events you have joined, and the bookmark icon (Saved Events) only the ones you have saved. Press either again to turn it off.
• When you are signed in, you can also search: press the search icon in the top bar (or ⌘K / Ctrl+K) and type the event name or a keyword.

Past events do not show up in the list, so everything you see is either happening now or coming up.

When an event is held at a venue (a campus, a cultural centre), the Address section of its page shows the venue's name and an Explore the venue link. The venue's page gathers everything held there, whichever community organized it. See what a venue is.

Open the event page

Tapping an event opens its page. Here you find the cover image, the event's name, the date and time, the location, the description, the community running it, and its organizers. You can also see who is going.

Event covers are square now. On an event with a square cover, the cover heads the side column on a wide screen and the event's name opens the page. Just above the name is the community running it; when several communities run it together, each has its own chip. Tapping one takes you to that community's page; with more than two, a button starting with + opens the Hosts window listing them all. The categories sit in the side column under Organizers, each with its icon.

Older events with a wide cover keep the old layout until the organizer uploads a square one: the cover across the top, the community in the Organizing Entity section of the side column, and the categories under the Description heading.

You'll also find on the page:

• If the description is long, part of it shows; Show More opens the rest.
• Tapping the date card lets you add the event to your calendar (add to your calendar).
• An online event's link opens once you have registered.
• If the event has photos, a preview sits in the Gallery section (in the side column on a wide screen, above the comments on a tablet or phone). Tapping a photo opens it full size right on the page; for all of them press View all.
• At the very bottom, Recommended Events shows three more popular events.

If the event is a training, the page uses its own words: Instructors instead of Speakers, for example.

Save an event

If you want to find an event again later, press the bookmark button on its cover (it reads Save Event when you hover over it). You need to be signed in to save; if you are not, we take you to the sign-in page. Pressing the button again takes the event out of your saved events.

On the web, saved events have no page of their own; they live on your profile. There are three ways to reach them:

• The bookmark icon at the right of the tabs on your profile, Saved Events.
• The My Saved Events link in the Account section at the bottom of the page, which opens your profile on that tab.
• The bookmark icon on the events list, which narrows the list to the upcoming events you have saved.

If you want to collect the events you are going to and share the collection, put them in a list instead. Lists take events from outside Gathin too (what lists are for).

Events that belong to a series

Some events are part of a series: the episodes of a podcast, the weeks of a training course. Such an event's page has a Series section in the side column; tapping it opens the series' own page.

A series page is like an event page, but it calls itself a series: its events sit under Events in this series as a short numbered list in date order, with past ones dimmed, and on a free series the join button reads Join Series. Series do not show up in the events list or in search; you reach one from that section or from a link someone sends you. See event series.

Register or join

The participation card sits right under the description on an event with a square cover. On an event in the old layout it is in the Participants section of the side column on a wide screen. On a tablet or phone it comes near the top, after the event's details and description, ahead of the location, the program and the comments.

On the square layout the card's top strip reads Registration and shows how long until the event starts. When you are signed in, your name and email are on the card too, so you can see which account you are joining with. The line at the bottom of the card says how many people are going; tapping it opens the list of participants. If nobody has joined yet it reads Be the first to join. On the old layout the same count sits at the top of the card, with the participants' photos.

To save your spot, you need to sign in first. If you do not have an account, you can create one in a couple of minutes.

What happens next depends on the event:

• If the event is free, you press Join Event. There is no payment.
• If the event is paid, you press Get Tickets, pick your ticket, then pay. Prices are shown in Turkish Lira (TL). For the steps, see free vs paid events.

In the ticket list each ticket carries its state at the top right: how many are left, a warning when only a few are, Sold out when there are none, and Sale closed once its sale window is over. A ticket whose sale has not opened yet is greyed out with the opening date under it. A greyed-out ticket cannot be picked.

The card says so too: until sales open it reads Sales open with the date and its button stays grey, and once every sale is over it reads Sale closed.

Some events ask you to fill out a short registration form before your ticket is issued. Answer the questions and continue. Your answers go to the organizer the moment your ticket is created. If they cannot be sent, your ticket still stands: a Your form answers could not be sent notice appears on the event page (in the same browser tab), and Send again sends them. When an event is full, the button reads Registration Full; if the organizer has turned on a waitlist, a Join waitlist button takes the card's place.

The moment you join, the You're In! window opens and your ticket with a QR code lands in your account. You will show it at the door. See your ticket and QR check-in.

When you buy tickets for several people at once, each ticket is created on its own. If some go through and one does not (the tickets ran out, say), we tell you whose tickets were created, and those people leave the basket, so trying again creates only the missing ones and nobody ends up with two. If you used a discount code, apply it again first: the basket is smaller now. On a paid order your card has already been charged, so we offer to create the missing tickets straight away on that same payment. If you say no, you are back at your tickets with only the missing ones left; pressing Complete Purchase there creates them on that payment instead of charging you again. The message also shows your payment reference; if a ticket still does not come, give it to the organizer so they can find your payment.

Using a discount code

If an organizer gave you a discount code, type it into Have a discount code? on that ticket's card, right beside the quantity, while you pick your tickets, and press Apply. The field only appears when you are signed in, because every code has a per-person limit. If it works, the old total appears struck through beside the new one, and the new one is what you pay. The Order Summary on the payment page also lists the discount as a line of its own.

Some details about codes:

• A code is for one ticket type. If you have picked two different types, the field does not appear; stay on one type to use a code.
• Changing how many tickets you are buying drops the code, because the discounted total was worked out for that number. What you typed stays in the box, so re-applying is one press.
• If a code does not work we say why: it has expired, it is not open for use yet, it has been used up, or you have used it before. If a code would bring a ticket under 20 ₺ (but not to free), it says "This code can't be used right now." The organizer has to fix that one.
• Free tickets do not take codes; the field only appears once you have picked a paid ticket.

The discounted total is worked out on the server, not in your browser, and travels to the payment step signed, so the price you were shown is always the price you pay.

After you join

The participation card now says You're going!, or You're attending! for an online event.

On a free event, the big button takes you to where the event happens, and says where:

• Show the location for an in-person event: the address opens on a map.
• For an online event, depending on the kind of link: Join the Meeting, Watch the Video, or Go to event website.
• If there is nowhere to open, the button reads Joined.

If you change your mind, the Tap to cancel your spot link under the button cancels your spot. On a paid event, if the organizer allows it, the same place holds a Get More Tickets button.

The card also has buttons to add the event to your calendar and to invite a friend. On the square layout they are labelled Add to Calendar and Invite a friend, beside the big button; on the old layout they sit beside You're going! as icons, with their names showing on hover (add to your calendar).

Your tickets also show on the page, in the My Tickets section.

Your streak

If the community has streaks turned on and this event counts toward them, you'll see a Your streak card under the participation card. It shows how many of the community's events in a row you have come to and your best streak, and says what this event would do for it: "Join to grow your streak to 4" if you haven't joined, or a reminder to get your ticket scanned at the door if you have.

Once your ticket is scanned at the door, your streak goes up by one. When you come back to the event page, a small +1 appears on the card.

When the event is over

A finished event's card reads Event Ended; the attendees' photos and how many people came stay on it. If you were there too, the card says Thank You for Joining and shows the ticket you had.

Share the event

If you want to tell people about an event you like, the Share button on its page gives you a link and a ready-made poster. See Share an event and make a poster.

Mobile app

The Gathin mobile app is coming soon, so you can find events near you from your phone. See the mobile app page for details.