Weekly Feature Update: Tipped Messages on Android!

Matchpool Development Update 18/11–24/11

Matchpool
2 min readNov 24, 2018

Report — November 24th

This week, our team began focusing on mitigating bugs and improving performance on both the web platform and Android application. In terms of new features, we’ve added Tipped Messaging to our Android app. The remainder of our focus was on resolving bugs related to private chat, loading times and general matchmaking on our web platform and android application. The changes implemented to Matchpool week will make for a more pleasurable matchmaking experience for all users.

What’s New This Week?

FEATURE ADDITIONS

  1. Tipped Messaging on Android

Tipped messaging is a massive part of the Matchpool experience, so it’s fitting that we’re adding the feature to our Android application, allowing users to tip on-the-go.

*Features and updates will be pushed to the Google Play Store on Sunday, November 26th.

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BUG FIXES

We’ve spent the week focusing on resolving pesky bugs related to private chat on our web platform and Android app. Specifically, we’ve taken aim at bugs persistent in private chats.

Web platform

  • Increased the general speed of the web platform
  • Prevented wrong usernames from appearing in private chats.
  • Matched users will no longer unnecessarily see “Chat” when they receive a message from the user they’re matched with.
  • We’ve added a new indication display for incoming messages. *Screenshot will be included when features are pushed to production.

Android application

  • Show all user transactions within the wallet tab, not just the most recent one.
  • Certain private chats will no longer be unnecessarily displayed multiple times.

Conclusion

This week, we focused on resolving several bugs on our web platform and Android app. Specifically, we removed bugs pertaining to to private chats, with the aim of improving the chatting experience for our users. We also added the Tipped Messages feature to our Android app! Now you can tip content on-the-go! The changes applied this week will make for a cleaner, more responsive and enjoyable matchmaking experience.

Check out our official applications!

Thanks for reading and match on!

Yours,

The Matchpool team.

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