Watch Party: synced movie nights with live chat and replays 2.0.3

Press play. Together.

A film night on a forum usually means everyone pressing play at roughly the same time and comparing timestamps in chat. Watch Party keeps the video in sync for everyone in the room, with a real chat beside it, and keeps the evening afterwards as a replay that anyone can watch with the conversation unfolding at the right second.

Try it in two minutes, before you buy​

Open the live demo board and log in as demo, password demo2026. Everything is prepared for that account.

Your mission: Rooms open on their own every day on the demo board. Set a reminder for the next screening, then open a replay and watch the chat come back at the right second.

Start the mission on demo.xen-support.com. The board resets every night, so break whatever you like.

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The tour​

Live party


Replay


Watch parties home

What it does​

• Synchronised playback of YouTube, Twitch (videos and live channels), Vimeo, VK Video, video and audio files, HLS streams and forum attachments. Play, pause, seek and the next video reach every viewer at once.
• A complete live chat. Replies, native reactions, mentions, edits, a pinned message, slash commands, slow mode, mutes, kicks and bans, plus GIFs and an AI assistant when you add their keys.
• A crew for every party. Co-hosts and moderators, a private backstage channel, a remote that can be passed on, and parties that are public, unlisted or private with invitation links.
• A queue the audience can shape, with upvotes, a vote to skip and autoplay.
• Live polls and predictions with results on the player, and an alert for everyone who guessed right.
• Step away without missing anything. A member can pause for themselves while the party goes on, then catch up at up to double speed.
• Replays with their chat. Every party can be watched again: the chat reveals itself at the right second, reactions and polls replay, and a highlight curve shows where the room went wild.
• Moments you can share. Capture an instant live or in a replay, then post it anywhere on the forum as a card with [WPMOMENT], or a whole party with [WATCHPARTY].
• Premieres and a lobby. Scheduled parties open their doors before the hour with a countdown and start on their own, announced in a lobby chat on the Watch Parties home page.
• Automatic recaps posted in the forum of your choice: figures, videos played, loudest moments and top chatters.

New in 2.0.1​

• A home page that is never empty. When nothing is live, it features the next scheduled party with its countdown and a reminder button.
• Replays that open on a conversation. The first chat messages are previewed until playback starts, and parties nobody attended step back in the lists.
• One vocabulary. Party for the event, room for the place, and no more bracketed plurals. 101 phrases were reworded, so review any translation you customised.

Added in 2.0.0​

• A whole section with Live now, Upcoming, Replays, Lobby and My parties, in the native look of your style, light and dark.
• New sources: Twitch live channels, Vimeo, video and audio files, HLS streams and forum attachments.
• Almost everything listed above is new: the chat, crews, private parties, the queue, polls, step away, replays, moments, premieres, recaps and native trophy criteria.
• Permissions in two sections: what members can do, and what your staff can moderate, also offered to global moderators.
• A moderation page in the Admin CP with active sanctions, deleted messages and a search that jumps to the replay instant.
• A richer Admin CP: hours watched, peak viewers, polls and moments on the dashboard, a health check of each integration, and options sorted into six clear groups.

Good to know​

Requires XenForo 2.3 and PHP 8.1 or later. It works over plain AJAX out of the box; a Pusher compatible service makes it real time. GIFs need a free GIPHY key, the AI assistant and the AI summaries an OpenRouter key. Upgrading from 1.4 is direct and keeps every room, message and rating; replays start with the parties played on 2.0.

The screenshots show open movies by the Blender Foundation (Big Buck Bunny, Sintel, Tears of Steel, Spring), shared under CC BY.

What you get​

• One payment, from €39 for a single site. No subscription. An unlimited sites license is available on the product page.
• Twelve months of updates. Every release in that year is yours, and the add-on keeps working after it.
• A 14-day guarantee. If it does not work as described on a compatible board and support cannot fix it, you are refunded in full.
• Support from the developer. The person who wrote the code answers.
• Theme-safe. Built from XenForo's own building blocks, so it follows your style, light and dark.

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