Encore

The night ends. The album doesn't have to.

Every great night out scatters the same way: forty photos on five different phones, the best story told once in the parking lot, the ticket stub lost to a jeans pocket. Encore is where a night gets saved properly — one album, built by everyone who was there, with the stub kept in your book.

Ask Luka: help me save a night How the stub book works

The memory album

A concert, a show, a game you caught live, any night worth keeping. The album is the group's memory of it — not one person's camera roll.

How it works

One album, everybody's night

Start the album — name the night: the artist or the occasion, the date, the venue. Thirty seconds, while it's still fresh.
Invite the crew — send the album link to the friends who were there, the same invite pattern as a pick'em group.
Everyone adds theirs — each person drops in their photos and their version of the night: the moment the room went loud, the song nobody expected, the seat with the terrible view and the perfect story.
Luka closes the cover — he stitches everyone's contributions into one clean night recap that sits at the front of the album.

Luka, memory-keeper

He asks for the good stuff

Left alone, people upload twelve near-identical stage shots and forget the night. Luka prompts for what actually makes a memory: What was playing when you walked in? Who lost their voice by the last song? What did the room do at the one moment you'll still be describing in ten years?

The recap he writes is stitched from the members' own contributions — their photos, their words — and labeled as exactly that. If the night's setlist can be attached, it comes from a setlist source, named and dated. A setlist Luka can't source doesn't appear; he never reconstructs one from memory and calls it the night.

Ask Luka to start your album interview →

The virtual ticket stub

The paper stub used to be the proof you were there — and the first thing the wash destroyed. Encore keeps it digitally, in a stub book that's yours.

Your stub book

Photograph the ticket. Keep the night.

Snap a photo or screenshot of the ticket — a physical stub, an e-ticket, a wallet pass — and Luka builds a digital stub card from it, saved in your stub book next to the album:

The event — who or what you saw
The date and the venue
Section, row, and seat — where you actually sat
Who you went with

The card says what the ticket says — Luka reads the stub as given and never dresses it up with details that weren't on it. A stub with no seat printed gets a card with no seat invented.

The collectors' thread

Same collection, deeper shelf

Ticket stubs are collectibles in their own right — the house already keeps a dedicated stub collection in the SI Collectors world at siticketstub.com, the stub wing of that project. A stub saved in Encore belongs to the same collection identity: your book here is the clubhouse face of the same shelf, not a copy of it.

Collect the night in the room where you talk about it; keep it in the collection where everything you collect lives. That's the one-account rule below, working the way it's supposed to.

See the Showroom and the hobby shelves →

One account, every room

Sign-in here is your Google or email identity — the same identity across the whole SI family of sites. When Google recognizes your email, your collections recognize you back:

Showtime Lukas

Your nights

Concert albums, your stub book, your pick'em groups, your ratings — the clubhouse keeps what the clubhouse nights made.

SIHobbyist

Your shelves

The hobby ecosystem's front door (sihobbyist.com): your grill cooks, your brews, your fishing log — the hobby shelves follow the same member.

SI Collectors

Your collection

Your cards and collectibles, and the stub collection at siticketstub.com — catalogued under the same identity, not a separate silo.

Honest framing. One person, one collection, every room — that's the design rule the accounts build has to honor: identity keyed on your sign-in email, and your memories and collections modeled per member, never per site. Member accounts themselves arrive with the accounts build; until then, this page is the room's plan, stated plainly rather than dressed up as a working sign-in.

Who can do what

House members

Start the album

Creating albums is a House power — unlimited albums, the full recap and keepsake treatment. It's the same group rule as pick'em: the organizer's membership covers the room he opens. See the House bundle.

Invited friends

Contributing is free

If you were there and you got the link, you can add your photos and your memories — no membership required, ever. And your own stub book is yours at any tier: your stubs, your shelf, whether or not you ever start an album.

Private by default. An album belongs to the people who were invited to it. Sharing one publicly — a recap card, a photo — happens only when a member chooses to share it, per album. Nothing in your albums is public because you forgot a toggle.

Grown-ups' nights. The site-wide rule stands in Encore too: no photos of minors are posted anywhere on Showtime Lukas, albums included — no exceptions, no setting that changes it.

Sourced or member-given, never invented. Dates, venues, and setlists in an album come from the ticket, the members who were there, or a named setlist source with a date — never reconstructed from memory. If it can't be sourced, it doesn't go on the cover.