FencR 2.1: One Feed for Club News, and Tournaments at Real Venues

FencR 2.1 is live for every club. This release is about two things clubs asked for: one home for club news instead of scattering it across emails, group chats, and calendar notes, and first-class venues for tournaments and camps hosted away from the club.

One feed for everything your club says

Your club now has an Announcements page. Coaches and admins write a post once, and every member sees it on their dashboard and gets a notification, with the newest club news also surfaced right on the overview next to the day's schedule. Pin the important ones, edit a typo after posting, and delete what no longer applies.

The feed is not just for new posts. Everything coaches have already written on individual sessions, the "bring your épée Tuesday" notes, rolls into the same feed automatically, linked back to its session. Members no longer need to open the right practice to find out what the coach said. And for things members should not see, staff notes give coaches and admins a private channel in the same place, with their own notification to the rest of the staff.

Email when it matters, quiet when it does not

Announcements notify members in the app by default. When something truly needs to reach inboxes, the club is closed next week, the tournament bus leaves at seven, tick Also send as email on that one announcement. FencR delivers it through the same system as club messages: children's mail routes to their parents, every address gets exactly one copy, and members who opted out of email are skipped automatically.

Because email deserves respect, every broadcast email now carries an unsubscribe link at the bottom, and mail apps like Gmail show their own one-click unsubscribe button for FencR mail. One click and that member's email is off, no login needed, while their in-app feed keeps working.

Tournaments at the venue they happen at

Your club now keeps a list of external venues alongside its own training locations: save the convention center or the host club once, and every tournament or camp there after that is two clicks. Coaches can add venues themselves right when they schedule, club training locations stay admin-managed, and members see the venue's address, with the map to match, on every session at an away site.

Small things you might notice

When a session is cancelled, everyone booked hears about it right away, including every linked parent of a young athlete. And announcement cards show who wrote them, with the author's photo, so news reads like it came from a person, not a system.

As always, FencR 2.1 is free for every club, with no tiers and no caps. Read the full change list on the release notes page, and if your club is not on FencR yet, creating one takes a few minutes.