Minor iCalendar tweaks released today, for teams automatically pulling schedules from their leagues’ websites:
Tiny tweak: moved the list of recipients (“To” and “CC”) down below the body of the message in emails, to remove the need to scroll down to see the actual message.
Should be appreciated by users on smaller screens.
Captains can now prevent last-minute attendance updates.
They can choose to prevent attendance within X days of a game by all save the captain themselves and trusted “empowered” assistant captains.
Find this new feature under Team Settings > Game Settings tab.
We’ve had reports where players decide not to attend a game at the last minute, and after updating their attendance sneakily neglect to tell the captain (who might be already on the field) — creating a convenient excuse for not showing up (“but I updated my status on HappyTC!”). Oh no you didn’t!
This has been an oft-suggested feature, so we’re pleased to roll it out. 
Bonus: you can now see when an attendance update was made — just hover your mouse over a player’s status for a particular game.
New feature for users of the iCalendar sync feature (used to pull in your team’s schedule from your league’s website):
The game location as shown on the dashboard is now clickable, taking you to the map/directions URL as provided by your league. (The link was always available under the “more…” notes section; this new feature saves you a few clicks.)
P.S.
Another minor tweak, applicable only to TUC.org users (or anyone else on the “Zuluru” branch of LeagueRunner: cleaned up how the location is displayed, naming the field first rather than showing the street address of whatever park the field is in).
Added an adjustment thanks to a heads-up from user RoBu:
OCUA teams using the “iCalendar” automatic schedule synchronizer were sometimes seeing themselves listed as the opponent. It should now work correctly and show the actual opposing team.
Punching through last year’s record number of users already (and still a few months out from the summer peak). 2011 on track to double 2010!
Summer (northern hemisphere) is the big surge for HappyTC use. Summer 2010 is on track for 100% growth vs. summer 2009.
Thanks to all loyal returning users, and more importantly to all the newcomers who are the source of the growth. It is great to see players who, having used HappyTC for a few years now, turn to it when they get the chance to run teams of their own.
Minor touch-ups… added reminder to emails that the non-Flash version of the HappyTC team dashboard works just fine on the iPhone, for all you cool kids out there. (At suggestion of ToGu and FaNa.)
Belated Happy 2010 to all our happy users.
It’s been a quiet month or two in terms of new development — we added national flags on the Testimonials page; that’s about it.
However, growth continues apace — year over year, HappyTC continues to track 100% growth. Thanks to all our users: loyal long-time ones, but also new users willing to try out something new. We trust that many of you will turn into long-timers yourselves!
FFindr is the preeminent one-stop solution for organizing and managing Ultimate Frisbee tournaments and events worldwide.
Today’s announcement brings a FFindr-branded HappyTC for loyal FFindr users, so that they’re never more than a click away from FFindr’s resources when using HappyTC.
Christian Jennewein, founder of FFindr, announced this partnership with HappyTC on the FFindr blog. This builds on earlier collaboration mentioned here, whereby custom FFindr tournament schedules can be imported into HappyTC, and with links to FFindr included at the bottom of HappyTC emails to Ultimate-playing teams.
Welcome to visitors from the FFindr community! We hope you’ll find HappyTC a helpful addition to your arsenal of online tools for managing your ultimate life.
