Recent Open Scoreboard Updates

Open Scoreboard has received a large set of updates focused on making the app easier to manage, easier to share, and more flexible for live events. This release improves the app experience, adds dedicated management pages, expands player and team workflows, and gives the scoreboard editor more design tools.

The biggest theme of this update is reducing clutter. Many settings that used to live in popups or crowded list items have moved into dedicated pages, while the main list views now focus on the actions people use most often.

Highlights

• New dedicated management pages for tables/courts, teams, and team matches.
• Cleaner cards and updated UI across tables, teams, scoreboards, dynamic URLs, player lists, and archived matches.
• Expanded player registration and roster management tools.
• Major scoreboard editor upgrades for animations, fonts, layout containers, timeout fields, and safer editing.

Tables and Courts

• Added a dedicated table/court management page for settings, player list assignment, schedule access, match history, and share access controls.
• Simplified the table/court cards so they focus on live scoring, creating a match, sharing links, and opening management.
• Improved the current match preview so users can quickly see who is playing on a table before opening the scoring screen.

Teams

• Added a dedicated team editor page for managing team details and rosters.
• Added team logo support with previews in the team list and team editor.
• Improved team cards so they show the logo, team name, and a short roster preview in a cleaner layout.
• Added token-based team manager links so a team manager can update their roster without needing full account access.

Team Matches

• Added a dedicated team match management page for teams, scores, tables, public links, scoreboard links, and match history.
• Added a public team match view that can show current matches, previous matches, and overall team score.
• Added an embeddable public view mode for websites that should hide the app navigation.
• Updated team match cards with clearer score rows, table counts, and dropdown menus for scoring and links.

Player Lists and Registration

• Improved player list management with searchable players, editable list details, and better card layouts.
• Added bulk player editing, CSV import/export, and duplicate handling during imports.
• Added configurable player registration fields so event organizers can decide what information to collect.
• Added resettable registration access tokens so old registration links can be revoked when needed.

Scoreboards and Dynamic URLs

• Updated scoreboard cards to show clearer visibility information, such as when the scoreboard is active.
• Improved dynamic URL cards so users can more easily tell what each URL points to.
• Updated dynamic URL editing so the form changes based on whether the URL is for a table/court or team match.
• Standardized copy buttons and link presentation across several sharing workflows.

Archived Matches

• Redesigned archived match cards into a compact score-grid style.
• Added clearer match timing and table/court context.
• Made game-by-game scores easier to scan without needing to expand each match.

Scoreboard Editor

• Added resizable editor panels and a cleaner editor UI.
• Added better block icons, descriptive block hover text, and more compact block layouts.
• Added aspect-ratio containers for common screen layouts like 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, and portrait formats.
• Added text overflow controls, larger font options, and an unsaved-changes warning.

Animations and Live Scoreboard Behavior

• Added animation options for value changes, conditional show/hide fields, and view/container effects.
• Added always-on view animations for decorative or persistent animated elements.
• Improved animation behavior so components still show normally when no animation is selected.
• Added scoreboard runtime support for triggering animations from live data updates.

Timeout Components

• Added timeout active fields for both sides of a match.
• Added timeout countdown timer components.
• Added combined timeout components for scoreboards that only need to show that either side has called a timeout.
• Added countdown behavior based on timeout start timestamps.

Account, Home, and Navigation

• Added a signed-in avatar menu with account and sign-out actions.
• Improved the account page for Firebase profile management.
• Updated the home page with clearer sections and article previews.
• Improved route handling so direct links to app pages work more reliably.

What This Means for Users

This update makes Open Scoreboard feel more organized and event-ready. Organizers get clearer management pages, scorekeepers get faster access to scoring and links, players get a better registration flow, and designers get more control inside the scoreboard editor.

There is still more to refine, but this update is a big step toward making Open Scoreboard easier to use from setup through live scoring and public sharing.