Social & Community Engagement

The social layer treats every meaningful petanque moment — a match played, a training session logged, a personal best, a badge earned, a photo posted — as an activity that flows into the social graph. Activities default to "followers only" but can be made public or restricted to a chosen list. Each activity supports kudos (a single-tap appreciation), comments and reactions, mirroring patterns players already know from fitness apps.

Training logs let players record practice sessions outside of formal competitions: duration, format, surface, partners, focus area (tirer drills, pointer drills, match play). Logs feed into XP, streaks, weekly summaries and personal bests. Photos and short videos can be attached and shared to followers or a chosen club channel.

Group challenges let a circle of friends or a club section create a private mini-leaderboard for a defined window — "play 10 matches in November", "highest weekly fantasy score", "most distinct venues visited this season". Club shoutouts is a one-tap broadcast that thanks a teammate, congratulates a member or highlights a moment, posted to the club feed and pushed to opted-in members.

Social discovery suggests players to follow based on the follow graph, shared clubs, geographic proximity and common competitions — "three players you played against last weekend", "five people from your club you don't follow yet". In-app messaging supports 1-on-1 and small-group chats with end-to-end encryption for private threads, attachment of activities and presence indicators. Moderation tools, reporting and block lists are built in.

Share cards generate beautifully composed images — a match result, a podium finish, a personal best, a fantasy score — sized for Instagram, Facebook, X, WhatsApp and Threads, with the player's chosen branding and the federation watermark. Universal links on every shared piece deep-link recipients into the relevant app screen, with a graceful fallback to the public web profile.