Meetup Calendar Feature Requests April 16, 2008 4:27 PM Subscribe
On the Add a new meetup to the Calendar page ground rule #1 states, Someone proposes a meetup in the gatherings category, people mull over a location and a date. Eventually an actual date and location is proposed, then people start saying if they're coming or not. It would be neat if there were (optional) entry fields for date and location and maybe location URL, and also neat if adding a meetup to the calendar posted a comment or notification in the thread stating all available specific details.
I'm imagining—if not a comment at the bottom of the thread (that the sidebar calendar linked to)—a mini-sidebar inside the thread that listed the meetup details. I can also conceive of problems surrounding changing the information when the information is changing. What else is amiss with this idea? What would make it work better? Are things peachy as they are?
I'm imagining—if not a comment at the bottom of the thread (that the sidebar calendar linked to)—a mini-sidebar inside the thread that listed the meetup details. I can also conceive of problems surrounding changing the information when the information is changing. What else is amiss with this idea? What would make it work better? Are things peachy as they are?
Crap, there *is* a field for date...I mean to type time.
posted by carsonb at 4:28 PM on April 16, 2008
posted by carsonb at 4:28 PM on April 16, 2008
Heh, if nothing else comes of this feature request, the Add new meetup page has an extraneous "Choose date:" under the Calender.
posted by carsonb at 4:33 PM on April 16, 2008
posted by carsonb at 4:33 PM on April 16, 2008
It's flash because it's a built-in control with coldfusion that let me add it with one line of code instead of building some monster HTML/js/css picker with date validation and all the error-checking required. A dumb simple flash form is pretty dang easy.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:22 PM on April 16, 2008
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:22 PM on April 16, 2008
carsonb- I had suggested in the past that they add a box at the top of the meetup post, that like the photos box, includes the location, date and time of the meetup (same information that was posted in the add to sidebar page), that would also be a link to the actual comment in the discussion that had the relevant information.
Collecting other suggestions: said comment would be "highlighted" like a best answer in ask.mefi
Also to check, as according to mathowie if you submit another meetup for the same location / date, it will update the original one to point to the more specific information (so if you first post a meetup for May 10th, but don't have a time or a location yet, so you just post to the thread), however I have not heard of this working for non admins, as I've had to ask cortex to fix it for me, and saw another post by someone who created a duplicate post attempting to fix it themselves.
Also, a pony request: mefimail notification to those who have opted in when a meetup within X number of miles has been posted to the sidebar. For example, Seattle has almost set a meetup for 5/11, so it would be cool if the organizer didn't have to mefimail a bunch of folks and post it to the sidebar.
posted by mrzarquon at 5:26 PM on April 16, 2008
Collecting other suggestions: said comment would be "highlighted" like a best answer in ask.mefi
Also to check, as according to mathowie if you submit another meetup for the same location / date, it will update the original one to point to the more specific information (so if you first post a meetup for May 10th, but don't have a time or a location yet, so you just post to the thread), however I have not heard of this working for non admins, as I've had to ask cortex to fix it for me, and saw another post by someone who created a duplicate post attempting to fix it themselves.
Also, a pony request: mefimail notification to those who have opted in when a meetup within X number of miles has been posted to the sidebar. For example, Seattle has almost set a meetup for 5/11, so it would be cool if the organizer didn't have to mefimail a bunch of folks and post it to the sidebar.
posted by mrzarquon at 5:26 PM on April 16, 2008
I'm not seeing the calendar in Firefox 3.0 beta 5 (XP SP2, Aries, Straight).
posted by blue_beetle at 5:40 PM on April 16, 2008
posted by blue_beetle at 5:40 PM on April 16, 2008
said comment would be "highlighted" like a best answer in ask.mefi
I added this a few days ago. If the sidebar meetup entry points to a specific comment, that comment will be highlighted in the thread. Here's an example.
We've been over the MeFi Mail stuff before and I think the consensus has always been that any sort of mass mailing is too spammy to build into the system. One to one is annoying when you're trying to contact a group, but it's much less easy to abuse.
posted by pb (staff) at 8:06 PM on April 16, 2008
I added this a few days ago. If the sidebar meetup entry points to a specific comment, that comment will be highlighted in the thread. Here's an example.
We've been over the MeFi Mail stuff before and I think the consensus has always been that any sort of mass mailing is too spammy to build into the system. One to one is annoying when you're trying to contact a group, but it's much less easy to abuse.
posted by pb (staff) at 8:06 PM on April 16, 2008
It's flash because it's a built-in control with coldfusion that let me add it with one line of code instead of building some monster HTML/js/css picker with date validation and all the error-checking required.
Why not the YUI Calendar?
posted by dw at 10:11 PM on April 16, 2008
Why not the YUI Calendar?
posted by dw at 10:11 PM on April 16, 2008
pb- Awesome, I haven't checked out a non seattle meetup yet to see the highlight comment feature, that works as well as the meetup box (but a link to the comment in the post area would still be nice, for quick reference).
I guess I don't see the notification of meetup thing as being spammy, as users would have to explicitly say "hey, tell me of meetups near me" before receiving the notification. The notification could only be initiated by a meetup being added to the sidebar, and it would only contact people who had opted in, compared to the original discussion which was "let me CC: people or bulk memail people."
posted by mrzarquon at 10:31 PM on April 16, 2008
I guess I don't see the notification of meetup thing as being spammy, as users would have to explicitly say "hey, tell me of meetups near me" before receiving the notification. The notification could only be initiated by a meetup being added to the sidebar, and it would only contact people who had opted in, compared to the original discussion which was "let me CC: people or bulk memail people."
posted by mrzarquon at 10:31 PM on April 16, 2008
How about if, once your city's meetup has been added to the sidebar but it just points to the thread instead of the specific comment w/ time, date, place, there was some way to change it so it points to that comment?
(Is that coherent? Not enough coffee yet.)
posted by rtha at 5:57 AM on April 17, 2008
(Is that coherent? Not enough coffee yet.)
posted by rtha at 5:57 AM on April 17, 2008
How about if, once your city's meetup has been added to the sidebar but it just points to the thread instead of the specific comment w/ time, date, place, there was some way to change it so it points to that comment?
Sure, that makes sense. In the meantime you can always email an admin and have them update the sidebar link with the target comment. That's an easy change.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:06 PM on April 18, 2008
Sure, that makes sense. In the meantime you can always email an admin and have them update the sidebar link with the target comment. That's an easy change.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:06 PM on April 18, 2008
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posted by carsonb at 4:27 PM on April 16, 2008