TEST VERSION · fictional players · no texts are sent · What to try & open questions

What to try, and open questions

This is a private test copy of the Pickleball app. Everyone in it is made up (their names end in “Fictional”). No text message ever leaves this site: texts are only written down so you can read them.

How to use it

  1. Sign in. Open the organizer app and type the test password. It is in the file “Pickleball test password.txt” on your Mac’s Desktop. It is not your normal password.
  2. This week. See this week’s games: one full and confirmed, one full with a waiting list, one with an open place, and a day with availability but no game yet.
  3. Change roster. Open a game and use Change roster. Try swapping a player, adding someone else, and giving away a held place.
  4. Messages. See what the players would be texted.
  5. Settings. Texting hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. here. Change them and see how the planned texts move.
  6. Jump ahead. Open the test texts page. It lists the next planned texts and every text that “went out”, word for word. Press Jump to the next scheduled text to move the clock forward: first the confirmation about 12 hours before a game, then the reminder 1 hour before. Press Reset to fresh fictional data to start over.

Recommended defaults to react to

These are the choices the app makes today. Each one is a suggestion for you to accept or change.

1. A game that fills late. If a game becomes full after its confirmation time has passed, a “Send confirmations” button appears for those players. You review it and press it; it is not automatic.
2. Evening and early games. If 12 hours before a game falls outside texting hours, the confirmation goes 15 minutes before texting hours end on the evening before. A game that starts before 7:30 a.m. gets no 1-hour reminder.
3. A safety margin. Automatic texts aim to go out at least 15 minutes before texting hours end.
4. After a swap. Only the players affected by the change get a text (Send changes). Everyone else keeps the confirmation they already received.
5. Giving away a held place. If a roster change would give away a place someone is holding, the app asks you to confirm with “Give this place away” first.
6. Weekends. On Saturday and Sunday the app opens on next week.

Items 1, 5 and 6 are the newest additions; say so if anything about them looks unfinished.

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