Released a tiny tweak, handling fancy accented characters properly in iCalendar feeds. (That’s for characters like “á” that are UTF-8 encoded.) Such characters were always handled fine in non-UTF-8 encoded feeds, but more calendar feeds coming on line (such as FFindr.com’s) do use UTF-8 — necessitating a check… so to avoid garbling, it now checks. Blah blah.
And voilà!
Released a new feature that captains will find useful: players whose emails bounce are now flagged as such, so that the captain will know when someone’s email needs correcting. (This only applies to “hard bounces”, such as when an email address is incorrect and doesn’t exist… and not to things like “out of office” autoreplies.)
A couple other minor tweaks:
Released a handy new feature for captains of the draconian school: the option to prevent “maybe” responses.
This option is up-front-and-centre when creating a new team. To prevent maybes for an existing team, hit Team Options / Game Options tab, and un-tick the “allow maybes” checkbox.
Props to MiGa for the idea (and no comment as to which captain school he attended 
).
Another minor feature just released is that of “premium service“: loyal/contributing users get a dashboard free of ads or logos — which gives an extra inch and a half of screen space height to view the team dashboard (handy on today’s vertically challenged laptop and netbook monitors).
Support HappyTC today and go premium!
Added a new feature: whenever a player posts a team bulletin, there’s now the option to email a notification to the rest of the team.
The notification contains the bulletin’s text, as well as the player’s schedule link so they can get in and view all the bulletins and the rest of the team conversation.
As well, we re-worded and tightened up several HappyTC emails to ensure optimum brevity and clarity.
Props to FaNa for the suggestions, and the continued prodding to keep HappyTC evolving and progressing!
Released a few touch-ups:
A handy new HappyTC feature has just been rolled out — you can now use SMS messages to contact your team mates!
It works like this:
Now, whenever anyone contacts the team from within HappyTC there’s the option to “tweet” the message as well — which sends an SMS to all following players!
More info is here.
(This assumes you live in a country where Twitter supports sending tweets via SMS… currently that appears to be the USA, the UK, Canada, and New Zealand.)
A few under-the-hood changes were just released:
Just released a fix to a problem affecting the “get your sched link email” function on the HappyTC sign-in page. Thanks to user JoZo for reporting it.
Also released some under-the-hood enhancements in preparation for translation of HappyTC into French.
Appreciate the heads-up from GrSc of tuc.org — an upcoming change to how tuc.org exports its LeagueRunner iCalendar feeds would have added some “junk” to the locations of games imported from TUC. (It’s to do with tuc.org improving how its schedules look in Google Calendar… an enhancement that will presumably be propagated to OCUA and other LeagueRunner users.)
Made a quick behind-the-scenes adjustment to handle that in HappyTC, and no one will be the wiser when tuc.org’s change is released!
Very small release just now — tidied up the subject lines of player-sent emails.
Before they always had “some team business…” stuck on the end. Now, that’s only there if the player doesn’t type in their own subject: keeps the subject line tidy & uncluttered.
Props to FaNa for the idea.
