Welcome back!

Great news are coming to rankade over the next months, so be prepared.

All rankade users who will have registered before 02.28.2017 will enjoy a number of bonus features exclusive to 'early adopters'.

Therefore, here's some advice to all of you, whether you've been with us for months and months or are just newly arrived: if you want to create new groups, with new opponents (family, friends, colleagues, etc), or to add new members to groups you already have, or to invite new friends, do it fast.

To add a new user to a group, just add their email in the appropriate field in 'Edit group', accessing the group's page as an admin; if you're not an admin, you can do it directly while adding a new match.

If you have any friends who are potentially interested in rankade but who don't play with you, you can invite them by simply giving them the link to the homepage. As you know, registering (via email, Facebook, or Google) is fast and free.

Moreover, any admin of a group containing ghosts (users not linked to an email address but managed directly by the admin) should convert all ghosts into actual users by the end of the month. Conversion is very simple:

• Open 'Ghost management' (it's a button in the 'Players' widget inside the group)
• Enter the email addresses to link to each ghost
• Save and exit 'Ghost management'.

All players you invite in this way and who are not registered on rankade yet will receive an email inviting them to finalize the registration. This step is easy, free, and with no ill effects: if the invited player does not finalize their user within 15 days, the 'pending' user will revert to a ghost again.

Of course, you will still be able to invite new users and convert ghosts into standard users also from 03.01.2017 onwards. However, only those users who finalize their registration within the end of February will enjoy the 'early adopter' bonus features, so don't miss this chance!

Autumn is coming, leaves are falling again, as usual, and finally the new webapp v1.8 is out. It's a major release, chock full of new features you can immediately see and try, as well as a host of behind-the-scene additions and improvements.

More in detail, these are the newly implemented features:

• Group messages in a dedicated widget (add comments to match results and rankings, schedule future games, challenge your adversaries!)
• Group badges (check them to see how to improve your group!)
• Notifications about new matches and messages (stay tuned about what's happening in all your groups)
• ...and more!

(Due to the new structure, some error can occur while loading groups, so please try accessing them from the dashboard)

Good gaming, and have a great autumn!

The new webapp v1.7.5 is out, and it includes a new group activities showing structure.

In each group, activities are now grouped by match (and ranking) to improve readability, and we added icons for players and badges.

You can check activities both in dedicated widget, as usual, and in details of the match they're referred, too.

The new webapp v1.7.2 is out. Among other new features and fixes, it includes:

• safer match edit and backdating
• News for the dojo widget in dashboard

More to come, stay tuned.

We just released a new feature, and summer is coming.

To be ready for both, in an amazing shape and with a killer look, here's what we recommend (if you haven't already):

• Add an icon to your user profile
• Choose the color you like for your line in the webapp's graphs
• Choose what to appear as in the groups you're in, real name or username

If you're an admin, you're responsible of managing your group as well as your user profile. If it's a public group, to prepare it for the dojo, you can add or edit a number of things:

• The group's icon (via group edit)
• The public group's image (via group settings)
• The group's public and private descriptions (via group edit/settings)

Moreover, if you want, you can (via ghost management) transform your group's ghosts into real users, linking them to the e-mails of the people you play with; this way, they'll be able to access all of rankade features and all members of the group can view stats for those users too (in any case, any unfinalized users will go back to being ghosts as before).

Good gaming, and have a great summer!

The new webapp v1.7.1 is out with plenty of new minor features (including matches' details browsing, and more) and fixes.

We'd love to hear from you! Help us to improve rankade and our services with your feedbacks and suggestions by completing the new contact form.

Our deepest thanks to all of you who took the survey.

The data we collected will be very valuable to proceed with development and some of your proposal have already made the to-do list, so that rankade can become a better and more comprehensive service.

We keep working, but the survey is still open. I you haven't taken it yet, you can find it here!

After working long hours in the shadows, we finally released the new version of the web app (v1.7), which includes a new, long awaited feature.

Each group now contains a new 'matchup stats' widget: for each subset, it evaluates wins, draws, losses and winning percentage of each player against each other member of the group.

Besides this major feature, which adds a sizable amount of new data, we added and updated several details.

We keep working to make rankade richer and richer. If you wish to help us develop rankade, how about you dedicate five minutes of your time answering a few simple questions here?