Oh my goodness,
So I have been lurking this thread for a while, and now I took it upon myself today to "officially" set this up for my club. I am impressed with the latest version of the documentation, made setup super easy. I have so far sent it to a short list of a few people, I am awaiting responses, but as for my own phone, it's working great.
GAME CHANGER. Can’t wait to try it.
Couldn't agree more!
Don’t get your hopes up too much for the texting portion. It relies on you using the providers SMS email address for that. (
xxx@txt.att.net,
xxx@vtext.com etc.)
I host a game on Friday night, and will be asking everyone for their cell phone provider (and phone number if I don't have it already).
There is a way to look this up that hasn't been mentioned anywhere. You can type phone numbers in to this website and it will return the MMS Gateway Address.
https://freecarrierlookup.com/
You do have to complete a CAPTCHA every time, but I think that's a small price to pay to figure out any numbers where you don't know the carrier.
I could do something like that in a future release. Each player could be assigned to a list category. (I.e. A list, B list, C list etc). Then the email form could have a selector to send to all, some or one of the lists. You’d be on your own to determine who goes on what list.
I wanna be careful not to over complicate this thing though. I’ve already gone pretty far down the rabbit hole.
I’ll consider it in the future. For now I want to concentrate on finding and fixing any issues.
That's probably smart, that said I do have a couple feature suggestions:
1) Support lists for multiple events. (Given the way this is structured, I can see where this can get difficult. That said, nothing saying I can't run multiple instances from my google drive as a work-around.)
2) options for daily texts instead of hourly. I don't want to blow up anyone's phone that frequently. But a set it and forget it daily reminder the two days before the event, for example, would be my goldilocks zone.
But this thing is more than 90% of what I would hope for and a better option than group e-mail/text by far.
Thank you so much
@Al Azouri for the effort here.