A club sets its meetups in MushMate, but it talks elsewhere: in its WhatsApp group, on Messenger, by the trail. Until now, a group outing never left the Outings tab. To tell the group about it, you had to copy it out by hand. Every outing now has its own link.
One button, one link
In Club › Outings, every upcoming outing has a Share button. On a phone, it opens the share sheet: you pick the group and it's sent. On a computer, it copies the link, and you paste it wherever you like.
Any member can do it, whatever their role. About an outing, the link shows nothing more than what the club's public page already shows of its upcoming outings: the day and how many kennels are going.
What each person sees
A club member who opens the link, signed in, lands on the outing itself, in their club: the title, the time, the meeting point, who's going. The kennel's owner answers in one tap.
Everyone else — a kennel from another club, a musher without MushMate, someone the message was forwarded to — sees only:
- "Group outing" and the club's name, which leads to its public page;
- the day, in their own time zone;
- how many kennels are going.
A musher without an account also finds a way to create their kennel there. A kennel that already runs with the club learns whom to ask for the invitation link.
Pasted into a chat, the link unfurls with an image: the club, the day, the kennels going.
What the link never shows
Not the title, the time, the meeting point, the notes, the organiser, or the names of the kennels that answered — not even to the club's group. Messages get forwarded; a title like "At Paul's, 7am" was written for members, not for whoever receives the forward.
What it doesn't do
- It lets no one into the club. Only the founder's invitation link lets a kennel in: the shared outing says whom to ask.
- It doesn't let anyone answer without an account. "I'm coming" stays a member kennel's answer, in the club.
- It doesn't notify anyone. MushMate sends no notification or e-mail when an outing is proposed: you share it, where your club already talks.
- It only exists on the web. Clubs have no screen in the phone app; the link opens in the phone's browser.
The choices we made
- The day, not the time. The departure time is member information, like the meeting point. The club's public page already shows the day of its upcoming outings and nothing more: the link sticks to that.
- The preview is dated on Paris time. A preview image is made once, without knowing who will look at it. Paris time is right for all of central Europe; in the UK, the day only differs for an outing leaving between 11pm and midnight. The page itself shows in each visitor's time zone.
- No messaging inside MushMate. Your group already does that very well. MushMate joins it through a link, rather than asking you to switch.