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Furbol — How It Works

Following a Venue

Following a Venue

This page walks through subscribing to a pitch — the heart button, its two visual states, and what actually happens after the tap. The rule behind it (what notifications you get, one-way nature) lives on Following Venues.

1. Find the heart

Open the venue’s profile. You can reach it from:

  • A game’s detail page (tap the venue name or address).
  • The venues list on the home screen.
  • A venue-listed game you found in search.

On the venue profile, near the top there’s a counter button with a heart icon and a number — the number shows how many Furbol users already follow this venue.

Tap the heart.

2. What happens when you tap

  • No confirmation dialog. Single-tap toggle.
  • The heart icon fills in and turns green.
  • The counter next to it increments by one (you’ve been added).
  • The venue’s title in your venues list from now on shows a green highlight background — that’s the at-a-glance signal that this is one of your followed venues.

On the Furbol server side, you’re now subscribed — when a host publishes a new game at this venue, you’ll get a push notification about it (same stream as notifications for your followers’ games).

3. Unfollowing

Tap the heart again.

  • Heart empties out, colour reverts to grey.
  • Counter decrements.
  • Green highlight goes away on the venues list.
  • The subscription ends from that moment on. New games at the venue won’t ping you anymore. Games you’d already booked there aren’t touched — you’re still on those rosters.

Unfollow is the same button, toggled. There’s no separate unfollow action, no “leave” screen, no confirmation.

4. Where you re-see the venues you follow

There’s no dedicated “Venues I Follow” list screen in the app today. Your followed venues live implicitly in the main venues list, distinguished by the green highlight on their row.

To scroll through “just my venues”, you can filter the venues list — the home-screen venues list has filter options — but there isn’t a first-class “My Venues” tab. You spot them by colour.

5. Custom / one-off venues

Hosts can create a custom venue when the pitch they want to play at isn’t in Furbol’s system yet — a one-off venue attached only to the game they’re creating. The heart button is still there on these custom venues, and it still works — but the subscription is useless in practice, because the venue will likely never have another game on it.

Worth knowing: the app doesn’t hide or disable the heart on custom venues. No warning tells you “this is a one-off, don’t bother.” If you follow one, you’ve subscribed, and Furbol will happily never send you a notification because there’s nothing to notify about.

6. What you won’t see in this flow today

Worth naming:

  • No dedicated “Venues I Follow” screen. Your subscriptions are scattered across venue profiles, visible only via the green highlight in the main list.
  • No confirmation on follow or unfollow. Toggle-only.
  • No “nearby” vs. “everywhere” scope. Following a venue is location-agnostic — if the venue is 400 km away, you’ll still get pushes about games there. The rule page’s “one-way relationship” framing is literal: you subscribe, they send you everything new.
  • No follow-the-host counterpart on venues. You can follow a venue, or you can follow a user; you can’t follow “the host’s series at this venue.” That would require both follows.
  • No notification-preference breakout for venue-follows specifically. The venue-follow notification rides on the broader pushes settings (see Notification Preferences). You can’t currently turn off “new games at venues I follow” without turning off a bigger category.