MeetFighters News
Introducing Combat calendar and Future Opponents
Hello Fighters,
We're rolling out a couple of updates today that you've been asking for: "Future Opponents" and the "Combat calendar." These features were built to make planning fights smoother and to help keep track of what’s coming up in our community.
Future opponents will join our Past opponents' system and help you plan matches.
What’s new
- "Future Opponents": This is for setting up your matches easier. How it works:
- Visit a profile and click "Schedule a meeting" under "Future opponents". Propose a place and up to ten possible dates.
- Receive a proposed request, accept one of the dates proposed or propose new ones.
- Keep your match discussions in one spot, whether you’re going public or keeping things between the two of you.
- If you choose to go public, let friends —or rivals— cheer you on or throw in their two cents.
- Confirmed matches are sent to your email, and can be imported to any of your existing calendar apps. You can also download the calendar entry directly from the site. There are great calendar apps (gmail, Outlook, iCloud) out there; you can import your upcoming fights directly into them.
- "Combat Calendar": Check out all public upcoming matches in one place. This makes it easier for the community to watch upcoming fights. And maybe you can even join one of them?
We are listening
Members in our community might recognize some of the features that are mentioned today from they own requests. That's the proof that we are listening to your feedback! If there’s something about "Future Opponents" or the "Combat Calendar" that could be better, or if you’ve got new ideas, shoot them our way! Or post them below.
Keeping it secure
We’ve built these features with your privacy - and anti-stalking - in mind. Here’s how we’re keeping your info safe:
- Choose if you want to have the future opponent match request public or private.
- Public events are visible on both profiles, and on the Combat calendar.
- You can still use all features of arranging and tracking a meeting, even if you choose private.
- On public events: Use private comments for anything that shouldn’t be public (such as exact locations, phone numbers, etc.). Private comments are directly integrated into the public comment stream. But only visible to your future opponent.
- Future opponents go public on your profiles only after both confirm.
Getting started
Open the Combat Calendar on the right main menu to see all public upcoming future opponents.
Want to challenge another member? Simply hit the 'schedule a meeting' button located in the new 'future opponent' section of their profile, just below where you'd find past opponents.
These updates are about making it easier for you to focus on what you love: fighting. We hope "Future Opponents" and the "Combat Calendar" make planning and participating in matches a breeze.
Best Regards,
Admin
nightstranger (56)
3/02/2024 8:34 PMDoes past opponents still work the same way?
Admin
3/02/2024 8:45 PM(In reply to this)
Yes, past opponets are not changed.
manclad531 (72)
3/02/2024 9:15 PMHi.
Can users opt out of receiving these requests in the same way as you can with receiving challenges?
Thanks
Grawres (2 )
3/02/2024 10:10 PMThat's nice, but I hope we have the option of not receiving notifications ?
TxWrestle (48 )
3/03/2024 1:44 AMWould seriously prefer if the "future opponents" were at the bottom of the page rather than higher than the "introduction". I like to read about people. I don't really care if they've got a public fight coming up, and now the "Introduction" requires extra scrolling.
MuscleSportAZ (60)
3/03/2024 2:45 AMI agree with TxWrestle. He makes a good point.
Emperor (13 )
3/03/2024 6:12 AMSounds fun!
Micha R (4)
3/03/2024 11:58 AMDon't want to get the public know with whom I am arranging a match
Dirka (170)
3/03/2024 1:40 PMI also don't like that new feature. Anybody must be able to write the fightdate in a calendar and for most people it is private when they fight.
joewrestler (159)
3/03/2024 1:47 PMTwo ways of looking at this feature...
Seems fun and I'm sure members will get emails on "How was your match with XYZ? " It certainly piques my curiosity of who is wrestling who and it does provide some sort of visual – seems exciting...
But my immediate impression is that this feature prioritizes social media-like visibility and popularity over fostering a genuine sense of community on the site. It gives that sense of "I have thousands of followers and thousands of likes" versus others who do not. I've been lucky to have lived in 3 different cities that exposed me to a good number of wrestlers, allowing me to accumulate a great deal of matches over 12+ years. Some other members live in very small communities with fewer opportunities for matches.
Then again, I may be reading too much into this. We are free to ignore the feature like everything else and not utilize it – it's there for whoever wants to use it :).
TxWrestle (48 )
3/03/2024 2:42 PMI also actively dislike this feature. Perhaps there could be some way to disable it such as a toggle.
Mancunian (19 )
3/03/2024 2:59 PMWell, that went well then!
Davey716 (45)
3/03/2024 3:17 PMI agree with all the posts from folks who don't like this. More scrolling through things that have zero interest to me. I have no interest in making public my upcoming meets. I would appreciate a way to hide a feature I actively dislike.
MuscleSportAZ (60)
3/03/2024 10:29 PM(In reply to this)
I completely agree with Davey716. Should be a setting to turn on or off this feature. It’s a privacy issue.
Davey716 (45)
3/03/2024 3:48 PMI should also add that one of the major points of the redesign was to reduce scrolling. Now the site management is adding things that require...more scrolling!
Ryen Hampton (11)
3/03/2024 6:01 PMWill this properly break out the “unreliable/no show” to be properly set to “unreliable” = person keeps leading on
“No show” = someone ACTUALLY doesn’t show
If you’re allowing us to post upcoming matches, then you’ll now have a tally of the times they keep cancelling which, SHOULD, result in someone being flagged as unreliable vs someone that just doesn’t show
sfbeef (84)
3/03/2024 6:07 PMI like the new feature and plan to use it.
mondo321 (2 )
3/03/2024 10:21 PMThis feature should be optional. I do not like it prominently displayed as it is.
Ryen Hampton (11)
3/03/2024 11:32 PM(In reply to this)
I totally agree!! I went into settings hoping there was a way to disable
TattooedTim (4)
3/04/2024 1:24 AMI like how it’ll work to keep guys honest. Set up a match publicly. If one flakes out, everyone will know.
Tritonrising (35)
3/04/2024 12:13 PMI will just ignore it and it’s a non-issue. Don’t need it.
GrapplingHB (351 )
3/04/2024 1:19 PMI don’t need that, my future fights are private
Admin
3/04/2024 5:14 PM(In reply to this)
This is totaly possible as stated in the news post. But as many of you had similar feedback and concerns, I'm happy to clarify and repeat it here:
You can keep it 100% private - then nobody sees it (apart from you and your opponent). - You still can use it to orgnaise the time and date, and get claender entries.
Private future opponents are NOT visible on the overview page or displayed on any profiles.
And of course anyone can decide to ignore this feature. It is optional.
TxWrestle (48 )
3/04/2024 9:54 PM(In reply to this)
It looks like you fixed the opening screen issue. Thanks for that.
TattooedTim (4)
3/04/2024 2:45 PMI’d like to know who “likes” the match with the community vote feature. Makes it hot when you know other members are following and perhaps waiting for the results.
Tritonrising (35)
3/04/2024 3:10 PMIt seems pretty easy guys. If you don’t like it, as I don’t, do not use it, as I won’t 😁
munichsubfight (177)
3/07/2024 3:44 PMThank you for a new interesting site feature!
The train seems really starting to roll with the combat calendar already spanning three pages...
...so it gets more and more work to see who´s gonna have a match.
How about giving optional notifications for future fights of users you follow?
That´d be a fourth box to check or uncheck at will for "combat calendar notifications" of your followed users in addition to the three already existing: "login notifications", "profile update notifications" and "birthday notifications".
sfbeef (84)
3/07/2024 4:15 PM(In reply to this)
I like that idea!
MuscleSportAZ (60)
3/07/2024 5:42 PMI like that idea as well.
TBLHockeyGeek (80 )
3/11/2024 2:57 AMI dig the combat calendar. It's a good way to keep track of upcoming matches and you can make it public or private. Great for planning matches with folks and such especially for trips.
Wish members would actually look at the new features you guys put into the site before being all pissy about them. It is funny to me it's ALWAYS the same people though...