New Feature: Personalised social images and profile photos
Announce your victories to the Internet!
We’re delighted to announce a fun new feature for athletes, as you can share any performance, quickly add a profile image or an action pic, and send it out on social media, straight from your phone!
How to share
As the diagram above shows, just log in, find your result, and touch the share button. You don’t need to add a photo, but if you’re using your phone, you can take a pic and upload it in seconds.
Download the generated photo, and share far and wide, or copy the link we generate into Facebook or WhatsApp, and people will see your image and result - if they click on it they’ll end up back at the full results page.
Sharing other peoples’ performances
You can share anyone’s performance, but you can’t add a photo or customise it. If they have a profile photo in the system, that will appear; otherwise there will be a plain card with their result.
So, if you’re impressed with anybody’s race, start by getting a link or image using the process above, and share!
If you’re an athlete, make sure you add a profile photo to OpenTrack which you are happy to have shared!
About profile photos in OpenTrack
We’ve long had space for a profile photo, and now is better than ever to add one to your OpenTrack profile. From the top right menu, click “My Athlete Profile” and you can upload one, whether from a computer or straight off your phone’s camera roll. In the future, we plan to do things like showing the winner’s photo above a race, if we have one.
For result sharing images, we have also added the idea of a second ‘action’ or ‘recent’ photo. We need to store this on the server, so other websites can pull it in, but we won’t use it in any other context. So, if you take a particularly sweaty-but-happy selfie to share after your race, nobody else will see that (apart from your legions of Facebook and Twitter followers, or your club’s WhatsApp group!).
Many thanks to Llewellyn, our developer, and our testers, for all the hard work which went into this! We welcome suggestions for improvements to make this even more fun.