News: what is happening at your clubs

If you wanted to know what was going on at your federation or your dojos, you had to open every club website one by one — and whether there was anything new at all, you only found out after opening it. Anyone with something to announce either wrote it on their own website, where the people here never saw it, or not at all.

That is now one page: News, at the top of the menu. It collects what dojos, federations and TournaEvent publish, and it is public — readable without an account.

Only the clubs you care about

At the top you filter by Federations, Dojos and TournaEvent, or pick individual clubs under “Choose publishers”. The filter is part of the address — so you can pass on a filtered view. On a phone the filters sit behind the “Filters” button.

Once you are signed in, a second filter appears next to “All”: “Mine”. It shows only posts from the publishers you follow. You will find the “Follow” button in two places: on a dojo or federation page, at the top of the “News” section, and on every post itself, to the right of the publisher’s name. Clicking again ends it.

“Follow” is not the same as the heart. The heart on a tournament or seminar saves a date: it lands in your calendar and you get reminders. “Follow” sends nothing by itself — it gathers one publisher’s posts under “Mine”. A dojo can carry both.

If you do want a notification on your phone, you switch it on yourself: Settings → Notifications → News. It is off by default. And if several posts arrive at once, you still get at most one.

Posts that write themselves

For your tournament or seminar the platform writes some posts on its own — you need do nothing. They appear as soon as you take the step in question:

• Tournament published, registration opened
• Registration deadline passed — with or without late entry
• Draw, schedule, results published
• Announcement document uploaded
• First match is scored: “Live ticker is running”
• Date or venue changed, tournament cancelled
• Seminar published

You are the publisher, not TournaEvent: the post appears under your federation or your dojo, and whoever follows you sees it under “Mine”. Each one exists exactly once per tournament — even if you withdraw something and publish it again. They are marked “Automatic” and they never contain competitors’ names, not even for the results: only the tournament name appears.

On your own dojo or federation page they are hidden by default. What stands there is what you wrote yourselves — the section shows five entries, and one tournament quickly produces ten posts. You can change both in the News tab of your dojo or federation, right below the news feed: “Create automatic posts” and “Also show them on my public page”.

Tournaments in test mode report nothing. Anyone setting up a tournament for practice should not get a public announcement for it.

Reading along with your club website

If your website has a news page, we take the posts over automatically — you need no technical knowledge for that. In the News tab, under News feed, you click “Find feed”. If we find something, we show you the address and the three latest posts from it, so you can see whether it is the right source. Only “Use this feed” saves it.

From then on we fetch hourly. We make the first fetch immediately, so you can see straight away whether it works. The first time we take at most 20 posts and nothing older than a year — otherwise half your archive would suddenly be in the overview.

If the feed stops answering one day, we say so in the News tab. Your existing posts stay visible; only the new ones are missing.

Writing your own — now or scheduled

Open your dojo (Profile → Dojos → Open dojo) or your federation, switch to the “News” tab and click “New post”. Title and text; a cover image is optional. Under Publication you choose between immediately and “Schedule for later” — the button is then labelled “Schedule”.

A scheduled post appears only at the chosen time; before that, nobody can find it. And it announces itself: the notification to your followers goes out exactly when it appears — not while you were writing it, and not never.

Later you can edit any of your own posts, withdraw them (they disappear from public view but are kept) or delete them. At a dojo the dojo management may write, at a federation the federation admin — the same level as for the master data.

Comments

Under every post, signed-in users can comment; anyone can read. Replies go one level deep — a reply to a reply is no longer readable on a phone. You can change your own comment for 15 minutes, and only as long as nobody has replied: otherwise the reply would stand next to a different text from the one it refers to.

If a comment does not belong there, you can report it. The author does not learn who did. If several reports from different people come together, the comment is hidden provisionally until someone has looked at it — without that, a crude comment would stay online overnight.

Comments are public and can be picked up by search engines. Do not write anything there that should not stand in public.

What the news does not do

• We do not scrape a website without a feed. That kind of scraping breaks with every layout change, and after the next rebuild an empty or wrong list would stand on your club page without anyone noticing.
• From the feed we show only title, date and a short summary. A click leads to your website — marked by the note “Read the original”. The full text belongs there and is maintained there.
• “Follow” sends nothing as long as you do not switch the notification on yourself.
• Automatic posts name no competitors — only the tournament.