Everyone in that match — in doubles, all four in one place.
In the Messages list, a doubles match conversation is named after the players —
Arthur/Bernardo × Caio/Davi — so you can tell one from another when you have
several from the same competition. A conversation born from an invite is
named after the sport and the time — Padel (doubles) · Sat, 22/08 16:45 — in
the match’s time zone, not yours: a match in Joinville is named by Joinville’s
clock even when read from Lisbon. In an invite for right now the name stays
Padel · now while it is open, and switches to the real time once the match
closes.You never have to set up a group: the match conversation comes ready.When the match starts from an invite, the conversation starts before the
match does — but it is only born once the second person joins, not the
moment you create the invite. A conversation takes more than one person: while
you are alone in the invite, there is no group in your Messages list at all.
From then on, everyone who joins the match joins the conversation too — whoever
leaves the match leaves it as well. Once the last spot is filled and the match
actually exists, that same conversation becomes the match’s, with all the
history from before.
In a directed invite, the invited player only joins the conversation once they
accept — before that they do not get the match’s messages.
An invite that is cancelled, declined, or expired closes the conversation, but
it stays readable for everyone who was in it.And if someone drops out of a match that was already scheduled? The
conversation is not lost along with the match: it goes back to being the
invite’s conversation while the spot is open, with the earlier messages intact,
and whoever takes the spot lands in it. The person who dropped out leaves the
group, and what they wrote stays. If there is no time left for a substitute, or
whoever created the invite calls the match off, the conversation is closed —
readable, as in the other cases.
The badge on the Messages icon counts conversations with new messages. It
clears when you open the conversation — on any device, since read state follows
your account.
A new message triggers a notification on your phone. And if you go more than
half an hour without opening it, the alert also arrives by email.A noisy conversation can be quietened without leaving it: in the conversation’s
action menu, Mute notifications silences its alerts, and the Messages list
marks it as Muted. Unmute notifications undoes it.
Beyond that there are no notification preferences inside the app: what else
reaches you is controlled by your device, in its notification settings for
Matchely.
When someone adds photos to a match, that match’s conversation gets a notice —
“So-and-so added photos to the match”, with how many items the gallery has —
and tapping it takes you straight to the match. It is automatic: nobody needs
to send the photos in the chat. Uploading is covered in
Enter the result.
