Flokk is where clubs post group rides and runs, and where people find and join them.

Flokk started with one kind of host: a person. Clubs added a second kind. A club hosts events, but it also needs things a person doesn’t, like a team, branding and repeating events.

The clubs on Flokk run open rides and runs, so a club has no members. It has admins, who run the club, organisers, who run its events, and followers, who hear about them. That one rule settled a lot of later questions, like who can edit an event and what happens when the last admin wants to delete their account. They have to hand the club over first.

The person who creates an event is kept apart from who hosts it. Events and app versions already in the stores kept working, and it later made co-hosting cheap to build.

A shop, a brand or a rider with a following often wants to host a ride together with a club. Flokk does it the way Facebook co-hosting and Instagram collab posts do. There is no list of clubs to search. A club shares an invite link, and whoever gets it accepts.

Only a club can start a co-hosted event, but it can invite another club or a single person. A link works once and expires after 48 hours. Someone who runs several clubs picks which one accepts, or accepts as themselves.

The first version only adds co-hosts. Removing one or handing over an event can come when someone needs it.

Anyone can ask the hosts of a club event a question before it starts. The host decides what to answer, and only answered questions show on the event page. A host can also post a message with no question, like a new meeting point.

There are no threads, follow-ups or edits, and the board closes when the event starts.

When an event is full, people can join the waitlist. When a spot opens, the next person moves up and is told straight away. People on the waitlist go before anyone who taps join at the right moment.

A spot opens in more ways than someone leaving. The host can raise the limit too, and every change that frees a spot moves the waitlist up the same way.

Lowering the limit never removes anyone who has already joined.

Everyone who joined gets a reminder about a day before the event.

Joining less than a day before doesn’t trigger one, so a reminder never arrives right after joining. The message names the weekday and time instead of saying “tomorrow”, because a late reminder would make that wrong.

Moving the event a little sends the usual update, not a second reminder. Moving it more than a day away means a new reminder later.

Every notification lands in a feed, pushed or not. Muting a club or a kind of notification stops the push, but the feed still has everything.

Opening the feed doesn’t mark everything as read. Each item keeps the wording it was sent with, like the push on the lock screen, even if the event is renamed later.

Club rides and runs often happen at the same time every week, so a club event can be repeated weekly or monthly for up to six months.

“Every Tuesday at 18:00” means 18:00 local time, so the ride doesn’t move an hour when the clocks change.

Each repeat is a normal event. Cancelling one week for rain leaves the rest alone, and a cancelled event can still be repeated. A club can give each one a cover picked at random from its own public photos of the same sport, so a running photo never ends up on a ride.