Inside Sportmeets Over the Past Weeks

• As usual, we've been busy doing what many of you - Sportmeets users - asked us to add or improve and we've also implemented another few items from the long-list of features that we want Sportmeets to have when it grows up!

  So, let's look at the new features and improvements:

  Static Pages

  You can now create your own static pages in the About us section of your group or ladder. Whatever it is that you want the visitors and group members to find out about - the brief history of your club, rules of conduct on the team's night out (handy for mixed teams), or a few links to interesting websites -  you can now put it on a dedicated page.

  'Mark Yourself OFF' Option

  If you've ever been using mailing lists to sign up for a game of football you might find this situation familiar: you're heading somewhere away for a couple weeks and cannot play in the meantime. So you just keep receiving all these emails about "the game next week" and you have to, for the 11th time, politely excuse yourself that you are away. So we've added this nice button on your dashboard which marks you OFF if you cannot play. Use it if you get sick, injured, go on holiday or just need to get away from it all for a while.

  Cancelling & Deleting Meets

  All types of meets can now be cancelled on the meet homepage (big red X) and everyone that RSVPd 'yes' will be notified.

  Calendar feeds

  We like to see you sporting and we're making sure you won't miss out on the action by...forgeting about it. If you use an iCal, Google, Outlook or Yahoo! calendar, you can now have all  your group's events synced with it. This not only saves you time of adding them manually but also saves you all the beers that you would otherwise had to pay as a penalty for not turning up.

  ...and finally:

  Badges

  Some of you might have noticed them already, but for the rest let me explain: Badges are our way of saying "Hey, playing sport is cool. Play more often, improve your game and win matches! Get other people playing too! And be proud about it!" We give badges to motivate people to try new sports. We reward those that do something extra, contribute to the community and help spread the word about Sportmeets because they like the idea.  But to make it a bit more fun, we've added some hidden ones, so just keep playing the sports you like and you might come across one!

  Well, that's it for now. We really enjoy reading your feedback so please keep it coming. And keep tuned for some more updates soon!

  

  by Miro Solanka Wed 18 Aug 0