Patch Notes

NEWS & PATCH NOTES

• Dedicated News section for long-form announcements
• Patch Notes section with chronological timeline

CHAMPIONSHIP FEATURES

• Drop rounds now support a more advanced configuration beyond just a flat number
• Support for both Event and Session drops
• Support for both Points and Position drops
• Automatically migrated existing championships to the new drop rounds system

DISCORD INTEGRATION

• Automated content posting via webhooks

NAVIGATION & UI

• Updated main navigation to include News and Patch Notes links
• Refreshed headers and layout to be full-width and responsive

WEBSITE

• Fixed the warning for iRacing linking to better inform if there is an issue with the currently linked account

WEBSITE

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from seeing custom classes and cars that had already been created
• Added option to delete custom cars and classes that arent assigned to other events/championships

WEBSITE

• Add text search to game selector when creating championships / standalone events
• Results Importing Wizard - Add text search when selecting a user for a results
• Updated profile dropdown UI

WEBSITE

• Fixed 'Drop Rounds' logic to correctly drop worst overall Event scores instead of individual Session results

DISCORD BOT

• /news command - Show the latest articles from Traxion.gg

WEBSITE

• Support for importing iRacing results through CSV

DISCORD BOT

• iRacing events will now prompt to link your iRacing account

WEBSITE

• Fixed a bug that allowed reserve drivers to bypass the application process per event
• The list of registered drivers now shows each drivers current status: driver or reserve
• Fixed a bug that caused some drivers to not appear on the championship driver list

DISCORD BOT

• Users that apply as reserve for an event will no longer bypass the application process for that event

WEBSITE

• Temporarily disabled iRacing account linking in connected account section
• Temporarily disabled mandatory account linking for both championship and event applications
• This is a temporary measure until we implement the new iRacing oAuth method

DISCORD BOT

• Temporarily disabled mandatory account linking for events and championships due to change in iRacing Authentication method

WEBSITE

• iRacing championships and events will now require the user to link their iracing account to be able to sign up and join
• Users will be prompted on both the website and discord bot to link their account

DISCORD BOT

• New process to begin applications relating to iracing events and championships that will prompt the user to link their iracing account before proceeding

WEBSITE

• Fixed a bug that would prevent "Connect" questions from showing when viewing driver applications

WEBSITE

• Fixed a bug that prevented login for some users after linking their Discord account. (Some accounts will need manual intervention to resolve the issues, if this applies to you please create a support ticket so that we can have a look into it)
• Note: Please allow atleast 10 minutes for the fixes to be deployed fully before attempting to sign in!

WEBSITE

• A bulk kick button has been added to event attendance, allowing managers to clean up attendance and remove stale registrations

WEBSITE

• Fix edge cases where some case sensitive usernames were not found
• Fix edge cases where two users could set the same username

WEBSITE

• Fix edge cases where published results were not showing on championship pages
• Fixed 'Game' dropdown filtering to correctly handle text
• AC Content Manager now directs to a dedicated Assetto Corsa search

DISCORD BOT

• Fixed field validation for certain application questions to prevent invalid responses

DISCORD BOT

• Added sync button to allow users to sync the discord embed to see if there was any changes recently. Cooldown for this button is 2 minutes per person per event/championship

WEBSITE

• Managers will now see the discord username assosiated with a user when adding to results in F1 24, and F1 25 results management pages.

DISCORD BOT

• Fixed a bug where a custom question would cause an error if it was longer than 256 characters due to discord.js field name sizing.

DISCORD BOT

• When creating your first community, the bot will direct message you to try and help guide you to the best support location.

WEBSITE

• Fixed placeholder text not being correct for the email field in settings

DISCORD BOT

• Fixed issues with the wrong message being shown when successfully completing a request.
• Reworded some of the messages to be clearer and stopped double messages in some instances.
• Fixed a bug where the Championship Standings embed would only show driver standings rather than team standings for a "Team Only" championship

WEBSITE

• Fix error on 'My Liveries' page
• Fix error on 'My Sales' page
• Fix user fetching error when merging accounts

DISCORD BOT

• Removed option to attend as a reserve on championship embed. The championship owner or admins can assign a driver to be reserve for a championship.

DISCORD BOT

• Fixed a bug that would cause retreival of championship and event embeds to fail for some users

WEBSITE

• Fix error with discord bot interactions for certain users

DISCORD BOT

• Setup Account button should now no longer show when a user without an account attempts to sign up
• Drivers that have completed their application and been accepted to the main championship will now automatically skip the application process for all event application through the discord bot!

WEBSITE

• Fix error being thrown when linking discord account

WEBSITE

• Added settings to allow Community Managers to opt out of specific Discord notifications. These can be found in "Manage Community -> Settings -> Discord Bot" at the bottom of the page.

WEBSITE

• Added results importing for rFactor 2
• Added results importing for LMU

WEBSITE

• Fix communities not getting deleted correctly
• Fix not being able to create an event with a short name (under 4 characters)
• Improved error reporting / tracking for the dev team

WEBSITE

• Driver CSV export: Fixed error being thrown when handling certain drivers
• Manager: Support for setting results for ongoing events (useful for live hotlaps)
• Manager: Easier access to managing results through championship results / standings page

WEBSITE

• Link to Grid Finder from every interaction embed
• Fixed whitelist setting not saving correctly at championship level.
• Support for importing users into a whitelist from a CSV. This supports multiple different input formats: SteamID, iRacing ID, Email, Username, and Grid Finder ID.

DISCORD BOT

• Added personal app commands, Grid Finder can now be used in your DM's to share Championship, Event, Livery or even driver information with friends conveniently
• The bot will now displays some fun status' that will update every 10 minutes
• New command /championship-updates to enable sending automatic updates for a specific championship

WEBSITE

• Manager: Fix error on championship events with no session structures set

WEBSITE

• iRacing CSV import also includes iRacing ID in user table

DISCORD BOT

• If you search for a championship that is a single event championship then it will return the event sign up rather than the championship sign up.

WEBSITE

• Fix Trackmania map linking API
• Fix profile notification preferences page not saving changes
• iRacing results importing (CSV)
• Updated error handling to better log for development team
• Updated error screen to be more informative

WEBSITE

• Fix certain 0 point results not showing when published

WEBSITE

• Fixed names of Trackmania maps not being imported correctly in certain cases
• Fixed names of linked Trackmania maps already in the database
• Made track clickable for linked Trackmania events, opens trackmania.io page in new browser

DISCORD BOT

• Fixed a bug where the user would be assigned the driver role if they attempted to reserve for an event when they havent signed up for the championship seperately
• Users can no longer withdraw from an event or championship that they havent already applied to or reserved for

WEBSITE

• Fixed a bug that prevented users that had been accepted into the championship from applying to an event
• Show events that aren't finished yet in championship attendance popup
• Fix /games route not navigating correctly in certain scenarios

DISCORD BOT

• Fixed a bug that enabled users to become drivers on events that had already finished
• Fixed a bug that would withdraw the user from the championship if they withdrew from an event
• Fixed a crash that would occur when interacting with an event or championships buttons

WEBSITE

• Export attendees to CSV now also includes application questions and answers
• Improved performance of homepage activations carousel
• Improved performance of joining multiple championship events at once
• Fixed error with creating notifications
• Fixed Discord bot event registration to correctly check if event has finished

DISCORD BOT

• Added the total championship attendees to the event embed

WEBSITE

• Addresses broken invite links on championship page, adding generic styling for non-discord services. Where icons are available for the service they are used.

WEBSITE

• Fixed a bug preventing the driver list from updating on the Championship and Event embeds after a successful application
• Added "Total Grid Size" to the event embed
• Improved performance regarding fetching user session

WEBSITE

• Improved performance of '/sim-racing-games'
• Fixes issue with homepage 'Activations' carousel causing page width issues on smaller screens.
• Improves layout & styling of ActivationsCarousel to ensure correct clipping.

DISCORD BOT

• Improved error messages

WEBSITE

• Fixed championship standings not being calculated correctly in certain scenarios
• Fixed mobile 'Join community' button being overlayed by images on certain pages

WEBSITE

• Fix error being thrown from Championship image fetching

WEBSITE

• Trackmania: Dedicated map linking when creating events
• More support for standalone event custom thumbnails
• Fixed event creation UI width on desktop when creating standalone events
• Manager: Better default thumbnails on event cards

WEBSITE

• New page to allow merging of accounts that have been created through different sign-in methods (e.g., Discord and Google). To do it, go to https://www.gridfinder.com/profile-manager/settings/connected-accounts with an account not associated with Discord, then connect your Discord account to link/merge it.

WEBSITE

• Added more options to universal driver filter dropdown (On championship page)

WEBSITE

• 'Export to CSV' for event attendees
• Drivers can now be filtered (by id and email) and searched in the Applications section of a championship.

WEBSITE

• Adds discord to the members id filter

WEBSITE

• Adds previous and Next buttons on events pages (when appropriate).

WEBSITE

• Improved search page to find events
• Using new event cards on search pages
• New event cards include event format
• Ability to join events / championships straight from event cards

WEBSITE

• Manager: Fix error on standalone event results pages
• Added F1 25 Results Importing

WEBSITE

• Always fetch single event hotlap results
• Remove redundant 'View championship standings' on single events

WEBSITE

• Added support for team only championships (only show team results)

WEBSITE

• Fix error being thrown when updating events, even though updates successfully applied

WEBSITE

• Fix order of event sessions being incorrect on certain pages

WEBSITE

• Fix showing no drivers when there are no selected splits on championship / event pages (when there are drivers not assigned to a split)

WEBSITE

• Don't fetch deleted championships in profile manager

WEBSITE

• Discord server roles not showing when signing in with google (requires re-authorising discord 1 last time!)

WEBSITE

• Added split selection on championship pages for event schedule, attending drivers, and results & standings
• Added split selection on event pages

WEBSITE

• Fix wording when interacting with standalone events rather than championships
• Manager: Show icon next to 'Applications' tab if there are any pending
• Fix livery images not showing on shared link embeds

WEBSITE

• Popup when trying to upload a file over the specified max file size
• Added 'Date of birth' as an application question option
• Updated date picker UI
• Updated rules management for championships
• Fix incorrect navigation when clicking My Paddock
• Fixed error when editing / adding a profile gamertag
• Show owner at the top of community admin list
• Show admin permissions correctly on community member list
• Fix community stats being incorrect on user profiles

WEBSITE

• Grid Finder
• Community discord integration
• Fix session structure causing browser crash with large grid sizes
• Fix different driver counts on driver dashboard
• Ability to view driver applications after decision has been made
• Live text input and text length validation
• Fix different community member counts
• Championship drop rounds
• Discord Bot
• Event updated notification shows relevant info
• Discord bot role assignment at championship, event, split and team level
• Find a community
• Find upcoming championship
• Find upcoming event

WEBSITE

• Ignore unpublished event results from championship standings

WEBSITE

• Fix notifications not being sent out correctly in certain edge cases
• Add extra safety checks to notification context
• Added alot more info/context for the 'Event updated' notification type
• Fixed setting custom track when editing an event

WEBSITE

• Fix community member count in partnered communities section

WEBSITE

• Show live text character count for text inputs
• Strip spaces from end of text input to not include in character count
• Added option to view driver application in manage championship drivers page
• Fix driver count and event grid positions on driver dashboard events
• Fix order of sessions when updating a championship event

WEBSITE

• Fix pages saying 'Championship' when creating / editing a single event
• Fix browser crash when championship has massive grid positions value

WEBSITE

• Grid Finder
• Fix event cards not showing correct custom event images
• Fix profile pictures not being shown in the correct priority (driver profile vs Grid Finder user)
• Fix profile picture editor not showing
• Fix date picker visuals when creating championship
• Discord bot
• Event attendance embed now shows live list of drivers
• Championship attendance embed now shows live list of drivers
• Improved action buttons context

WEBSITE

• Fix priority of displayed header images on events

WEBSITE

• Fix timezone issues on driver dashboard events
• Fix event numbers being incorrect on championship standings page
• Displaying user profile display names in correct places (driver, livery designer, etc)
• Fixed issue with showing outdated profile picture on profile pages
• Fix email links being outdated
• Added about section on listed communities
• Improved styling for about and rules sections
• Automatically fetching more details at championship applications
• Added back ability to change global Grid Finder profile picture (non profile specific)
• Fixed events created in a different timezone than the users showing incorrect time

DISCORD BOT

• Improved embed functionality
• Fix and improve notifications

WEBSITE

• Added support for AC results file uploads
• Show event results session filter in correct order

WEBSITE

• Improved keyword search on creator profiles

WEBSITE

• Added 'about' section to community settings pages
• Improved styling of rendered about and rules sections
• Allows for community join link to be optional

WEBSITE

• Fix issue when kicking members from a championship

WEBSITE

• Reduced size of community manager stats on tablet and mobile

WEBSITE

• Fixes issue around not being able to add your community banner when creating a community
• Clearly displaying links on event details page

WEBSITE

• Fix Community Manager preview championship links
• Remove sticky navbar on mobile
• Prevent driver championship application modal flickering after submission
• Automatically fetching discord username when it's requested by a championship
• Fixed mobile view being stretched on event pages in edge cases
• Fixed driver profile event cards linking to the wrong url on navigation
• Improved Community Manager authorisation error message
• Scroll championship tab into view when loading page on mobile
• Fixed text wrapping on driver checkbox application question
• Increased width of driver application modal on mobile
• Fix car class name missing when applying for an event
• Fix event attendance opt out button
• Updated livery search page to support infinite scroll instead of pages
• Fix car class not affecting search results in livery search
• Fix event metadata not showing custom event images
• Fix tracks not showing on event cards within community pages
• Event creation positions awarded defaults to championship grid positions
• Championship / Car classes grid size shows in review form
• Improved how game page search works
• Changed 'More games' to 'All games' on Games page
• Auto fill application questions from connected accounts (steam ID and iRacing ID)
• Fix error being thrown when enabling application questions for championship

WEBSITE

• Fixed results & standings points being added up incorrectly for teams
• Improved Championship Car Class & Grid Positions form
• Drivers now choose their car class when applying for championships with car classes
• Championship / Event driver count synced across driver and manager side
• Fix issue with 'Start Time' on sessions showing current time values [Manager]
• 'Start Time' on future sessions is now calculated based on previous session data during creation [Manager]
• Improved search styling and UI across the site
• FIxed some img sources related to events and tracks

WEBSITE

• Fixed championships with no results showing up in racing search

WEBSITE

• Added option for optional / required championship application questions
• Livery keyword search now supports usernames

WEBSITE

• Fix width of community cards on home page (mobile)
• Ensures driver counts are 'out of' at least the numbers of registered drivers.
• Prevent spam notifications when a user registers for championship
• Prevent notifications being sent that are from deleted events

WEBSITE

• Fixes broken link on calendar event cards
• Fixes displayed platforms on calendar event cards

WEBSITE

• Released analytics for Season 3 of the IMSA Championship
• Only show non-verified cars if created by the user in championship car class creation
• Made button hover effects more consistent across the front end
• Fix car class grid positions max characters input styling

WEBSITE

• Displaying max character limit on text inputs
• Fix Community Manager breadcrumb linking to wrong page
• Added Results into manager breadcrumbs
• Scroll to top on navigating between pages
• Scroll to the top of the results when going to the next results page on game pages
• Improve feedback during community creation
• Clearer wording used on community discord page

WEBSITE

• Fixed promoting / demoting admins in community when they are also a driver
• Increased width of popup of member changes on mobile
• Fix users who are only an admin of a community being redirected to create page
• Improved consistency in UI when creating sessions

WEBSITE

• Added a back button when landing on a 'x not found' page
• Fixed download button hiding behind elements on mobile livery page
• Improved layout of mobile livery page
• Improved the feedback during community creation
• Added edit results button in championship events page
• Fixed results page not being full width
• Allow driver to cancel registration / application to championships when event attendance pop out is displayed
• Increase scroll height when showing many upcoming events in event attendance pop out
• Fixed mobile text size appearing incorrectly on mobile racing cards
• Widened livery cards on mobile trending liveries section
• Improved UI of commentator search
• Improved community settings page on mobile
• Improved feedback during championship creation / editing
• Fix not being able to edit teams once logos were set
• Fix updating team logos throwing an error
• Fix teams not being deleted correctly
• Improve flow of editing championship teams

WEBSITE

• Ordered community search by member count
• Fix error being thrown when drivers have no name / email set in manage drivers
• Only show games supported for selected platform on search pages
• Improved feedback for save button on championship team settings page
• Fix championship standings not always showing correct teams / splits
• Fixed drivers being removed from teams / splits when saving results
• Fixed error on first visit of community manager when navigating from home page
• Fix incorrect wording when creating single events
• Display lap (attempt) counts on hotlap results

WEBSITE

• Fix community stats not appearing correctly on discord bot

WEBSITE

• Game specific pages: Fix finished championships / events showing in upcoming filter
• Fix racing search showing finished championships / events
• Community page - Championships view is now better at defaulting to filters to options that will show your championships (e.g will no longer have filter defaulted to Live if you have no Live championships)
• Ordered these championships more appropriately
• Championship page now shows Starts or Started, depending on current time relative to start date
• Now championships and events are 'live' at the same time (based of if sessions are ongoing within events/championships)
• Synced up timing between event cards, event pages, champ cards, champ pages so they feel more connected.
• Changed wording of "Next event" to "Next race", on championship page/card, as this is now based on sessions not event time

WEBSITE

• Fixed images being cached after being updated
• Support for more user display options on community members page (manager side)
• Support for 'iRacing', 'Ubisoft', 'Driver Profile' and 'Real Name' display options for championship members
• Added 'Steam Account' as a display option when managing championship members
• Adding a 'live' races section to the communities page.

WEBSITE

• Better loading state for the championship page

WEBSITE

• Fixed img src error on event pages
• Reset error message received after uploading an invalid img
• Fixed text shown on img cropper
• Made text bigger at larger screen sizes on event cards
• Added truncate tooltip to start date (event cards)
• Changed event cards and event pages Live/Countdown render to work in the same way they do on championship cards.
• Fixed event order of 'More events in this championship' section