Community

The Mafia Mystery fanbase includes over 1700 members. Players mainly coordinate on Reddit and Discord, while Instagram is used by Toast Mobile mostly to promote events.

Role Suggestions
Mafia players are constantly coming up with new possible roles for the game. There are hundreds of suggestions already. Other members of the community comment their opinions on the roles and help each other balance them out to be more fun in the game.

Gamethrowers
Gamethrowers (or Throwers) are players that intentionally lose the game. The most common form of gamethrowing is exposing a list of all the members of the Mafia after rolepicking a Mafia role.

Gamethrower Nation
Gamethrower Nation (GTN) was an organized group of gamethrowers that operated from late 2017 to mid 2019. It sparked a massive influx of gamethrowing on the app. They communicated on several Discord servers, including GTN (2017-2018), GTN2 (2018-2019), and Gamethrower Network (2019). GTN caused many players to quit the game out of frustration.

Gamethrower Nation was run by two players named lichessye and Ihaveexpectations (HelloIAmMyself). The most prominent gamethrowers were ZodiacThrower (coolcallz) and Briggs, both of whom continued to throw after the close of GTN.

Gamethrowers avoided bans from the Cleaner system by creating new accounts each time they threw. By the time the group closed down, they had created hundreds of alts for throwing.

GTN also used an exploit to create games that would not start. These games stayed in the public lobby for months at a time. The titles were anti-semitic and racist phrases.

In addition to throwing, GTN also targeted and harrassed certain players, usually those with high social status. They did this by using insults while throwing and by creating accounts and games specifically to target people.

Following the 2019 update to Mafia Mystery, many aspects of GTN were blocked by Toast, and it eventually ceased activity.

Dark Ages
A period of inactivity by Toast Mobile, nicknamed the Dark Ages, lasted from early 2018 to early 2019. During this time, the Cleaner system was archived and there was a massive increase in gamethrowing and coin farming. This coincided with the time GTN was gaining traction.

During the Dark Ages, all of Toast Mobile's employees quit their jobs, leaving Tobey Osborne (Toast) the sole owner. In May 2019, Toast hired Noah Callen (nbc500) as a part-time employee and began working to revive the community.

CHamburr
CHamburr was a Mafia player with programming experience that used weaknesses in the game's code to troll and cheat in the game. He created several accounts advertising his Discord server and gave them developer-exclusive avatars. He also spammed games and accounts harrassing players, along with Gamethrower Network. CHamburr was the creator of maf.glitch.me, a cheating website that showed people roles and Godfather Pro-exclusive stats.

The website was partially taken down and CHamburr stopped harrassing players after coming to an agreement with Toast. CHamburr was made a moderator in the Mafia Mystery Discord server and continued developing a knock-off Mafia Mystery app.