What's new in Dinkin.

Stop screenshotting pings into group texts.

Share button on every ping you author. Hit Share on the ping card — Dinkin builds a dinkin.app/p/… link and either pops your phone’s share sheet or copies it to your clipboard. Text it, DM it, drop it in a group chat.

Friends already on Dinkin tap the link and jump straight to the ping inside the app, with the Join button right there.

Friends not on Dinkin yet tap the link and see a clean preview page — when, where, your note, how many spots are left. One tap to sign up, and after they verify their number they land on the ping with you already added as a friend.

It’s a link, not a megaphone. Sharing a ping doesn’t make it public or push it into anyone else’s feed. Only the people you hand the link to can see it. If someone you’re not friends with joins via a link, they land pending — you confirm them the same way you confirm any join request — and the ping shows up in their “Shared with you” section until you do.

The audience picker on the post-a-ping screen got a real overhaul.

Choose friends… is a new audience option. Tap it, multi-select friends from a searchable, sortable list, and send your ping to exactly those people. Sort the list by name, skill, or when you added them — same chips the Friends tab uses.

Save as group lives inside that picker. If you find yourself sending to the same set repeatedly, save it as a group right there — no jumping over to the Friends tab to set it up first.

See who’s on a ping. Group and chosen pings now show their recipient list right on the ping card: “Sent to: Em, Sam, you” or “Group members: Em, Kevin G., you, +5 more.” No more guessing who else got it.

Add people to a chosen ping after posting. Edit a chosen ping and you can add more recipients — the existing folks stay locked in (the audience can grow, never shrink, so nobody gets quietly dropped).

“Barrels” are now “Groups.” Same feature, clearer name. Your existing groups carried over exactly as they were.

The “Where” field on a ping is now an autocomplete with three layers of suggestions, listed in this order:

• Recent — places you’ve pinged before. Your top 8 favorites.
• Friends — places friends and group-mates have pinged within ~25 miles of you. Find the courts your people actually play at.
• Nearby — 1,054 hand-curated courts across 82 cities, sourced from our Local Scenes city guides. Surfaces when you’re in one of those metros, or whenever you type a name match anywhere.

Tap any suggestion to fill the field. If the place isn’t in the list, just type it normally — the field still works the way it always did.

Hide entries you don’t want. Tap the × on any suggestion row and it’s gone for good (typos, one-off spots, that random court a friend tried once).

Long names truncate cleanly. No more “Hudsonville ECC pickleball courts” pushing the chip off the edge.

The curated court directory grows automatically every time we publish a new city guide on Local Scenes. New city, new courts in the dropdown — no app update needed.

People you may know. Opt in on the Friends tab and Dinkin will surface mutual friends — anyone you share 2+ friends with who’s also opted in. Both sides have to opt in; nobody gets surfaced without consent. Symmetric, off by default.

Game reminders, 2 hours out. Every confirmed game now pushes a heads-up two hours before kickoff. No more “did I have something at 6 or 7?” five minutes too late.

Tombstone card for pulled-down games. When someone pulls down a game you were in, the Games tab now shows a clear “Game canceled” card instead of silently vanishing the ping. Tap to dismiss once you’ve seen it.

Smarter Game On. “Any-size” pings now tip into Game On as soon as someone joins — not just when the seat count is hit. Spontaneous twos and threes count too.

Notifications got a tune-up. Friend and group pings consolidated into one toggle (“Friend & group pings”). New “Coordination” channel covers time-sensitive status chips on your active games (“on my way,” “running late,” etc.) — so you can keep urgent updates on without getting buried in noise. Clearer off-state pitch for users who haven’t enabled push yet.

Community spotlights are now location-aware. The spotlight card on the Pings tab now shows the partner club closest to you, instead of a generic default.

Privacy Policy draft published. Plain-English, covers what we collect, what we don’t sell, and how to reach us with questions. Lives at /privacy. Still in first-draft (a legal review pass is on the roadmap), but the substance is the substance.

Account deletion is built. If you ever want out, email letsplay@dinkin.app and we’ll remove your account and everything tied to it — pings, games, friend connections, groups — in a single atomic batch. Frees your phone number to sign up again later if you change your mind.

A self-serve delete button in the Me tab is on the near-term roadmap; until then, email’s the path.

Two changes that reduce coordination friction:

Block double-booking. If you try to post or join a game whose window overlaps another game you’re already in or hosting, Dinkin stops you with a clear conflict message instead of letting you commit to two things at once. Joinable pings on the Pings tab also show a small conflict indicator up front, so you see the issue before you tap.

Friends auto-confirm. When a confirmed friend asks to join your ping, they’re confirmed instantly — no manual “approve” step. Non-friends still go through the normal request flow. Saves a tap, surfaces commitment faster, and keeps the “Game on” trigger snappier.

Status chips revamp. The chat-style status tray on the Games tab got a tighter 3-column layout and clearer chips: “Heads up” added, “Bringing” replaced “Brought,” and “On court” + “GG” retired in favor of cleaner kinds. Free-text inputs (ETA, Wearing, etc.) no longer trigger iOS’s annoying zoom-to-input.

Add to calendar. Every confirmed game now has an “Add to calendar” link that exports a proper .ics event — works on iOS PWA, dark mode, and pulls the right time/place/note. No more manually typing kickoff into your calendar app.

Played together. The Friends tab now surfaces people you’ve shared confirmed games with — even if you’re not friends yet. Tap to send a friend request, or dismiss with a swipe. Good for the “I keep playing with this person, why aren’t we friends” case.

Sort your friends list. Friends tab gets three sort chips: Name (A→Z), Skill (highest first), Added (most recent first). Tap the active chip to flip direction.

Tab switching is instant now. Tabs stay mounted across switches instead of remounting every time — flipping between Pings and Friends is now stutter-free.

Greeting roulette on Me tab. Small thing: the greeting at the top of Me re-rolls on every visit. Variety doesn’t hurt.

Invite links that auto-friend. Every user now has a stable share link (dinkin.app/?i=YOUR-TOKEN). When a friend signs up through your link, a pending friend request lands in your inbox automatically — and you get a ”👋🏼 [name] joined Dinkin” push the moment they finish profile setup. The sign-in screen even shows a ”👋🏼 [name] invited you!” chip when someone arrives through your link.

Tell Your Crew card. A new card on the Pings tab gives you the share link with sensible copy (“Hey, join me on Dinkin!”) for iMessage / WhatsApp / wherever you crew up.

Welcome card on Pings tab. Brand-new accounts now see a Colin-voiced 4-step welcome panel walking you through the basics. Dismissible — and if you change your mind, the Me tab has a “Show dismissed tips” Restore row.

“Build your roster” on Friends tab. A similar onboarding panel for the Friends tab explaining how friends + groups work together.

Court Lines v3 visual refresh. A multi-week design pass landed: refreshed typography (Fraunces retired in favor of Bricolage), normalized eyebrows, modernized sheet titles, polished dark mode across every authenticated screen + sign-in. New accent role: amber for validation / pending state. The Radiant mark replaces the yellow-pickleball icon throughout.

Court Rules. Public terms-of-service at /court-rules, plain-English, linked from the sign-in legal microcopy.

Friends tab renamed from Network. Same tab, clearer label. (Old tab-dot state preserved — no badge reset for existing users.)

PhoneEntry polish. “18 or older” added to the consent microcopy, leading country-code digit stripped on autofill paste, better SMS-consent legal text.

Local Scenes is live. A dedicated city-by-city directory at dinkin.app/pickleball: courts (outdoor and indoor), community groups, and tournament calendars, with seasonality notes and venue details. Launched with 26 cities across 16 states including Grand Rapids, NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Austin, Denver, Phoenix, Naples, Tampa, Atlanta, Houston, Charlotte, SLC, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, LA, DC, and more. Founder picks called out with banners. A small jump-nav at the top of each city page makes long pages easy to skim.

Court Lines blog is live at /blog. First post: “How to find pickleball players in your area” — positive-voice, scannable, includes FAQ schema for Google. More posts coming.

About page rebuilt. /about is now a real product story: intro stack, dark “How it works” band, phone mockups, founder note with click-to-copy handle, and a footer CTA trio (Use Dinkin / Local Scenes / Court Lines). Swipe carousel on mobile, light/dark phone mockups.

Community Spotlight card on the Pings tab — surfaces a partner club near you (currently All In Pickleball Gym for the Grand Rapids region, more partners rolling in).

Open Graph + sitemap. Real OG images on every page so link previews look good in messages and social posts; sitemap + robots.txt wired up so Google can index the city pages.

Report-an-Issue button at the bottom of the Pings tab. Tap it, type whatever’s broken or annoying, hit send — it lands in our admin queue with your contact info so we can follow up. No email back-and-forth required.

Audience reach warnings on the post-a-ping screen. When the audience you’ve picked would reach zero people — a friends-only ping with no friends, an empty group, a public ping with location off — Dinkin now shows a heat-edge banner explaining why and what to do, instead of letting you silently post into the void. Each audience chip also shows its recipient count (All friends · 12), tinted heat-pink when the count is zero.

Push timezone fix. Push notification bodies now render in the author’s local time, not server UTC. “Tomorrow at 4:00 PM” reads correctly for everyone now.

Accessibility pass. Tap targets enlarged to the 44-point Apple minimum across the app, focus-ring restored for keyboard users, reduced-motion preference honored. Pull-to-refresh got a new lime-ball-orbiting-the-court animation.