Suggestion Box

Organized Suggestions

• Upcoming Alerts
  • ability to tell upcoming.org what artists or keywords i'm interested in and get an email when an event is posted that matches my criteria.

• Upcoming Badge
  • checkbox which Incorporates event descriptions within the badge.
  • Ability to change the name that is displayed in the Badge that is created. I don't want everyone to ask me, "who is 'user123'?" which is my (example) Upcomming.com user name. I'd like to put a name I select in there, or just "more of my events". I hope that makes sense!
  • Ability to toggle between watched/attending/both events for the badge. (some of the things i have set to "watch" dont need to be in my "upcoming badge")
  • List time on the event.

• Reminders
  • Reminders, especially SMS reminders, should contain the venue address. Descriptions are not so crucial (chances are you KNOW what the event is!) but having that reminder with an address is invaluable.

• Categories
  • I note that there are currently nine (9) choices of event catehgory (plus "other"). Of these, four are "art & music" (they should be grouped together).
  • I think we need a) subcategories (see above), b) a "technical" event category, c) a good way to add new categories to the menu
  • As a suggestion for adding new categories, how about if "new" categories went into a second list of "popular "other" categories", ala venues. If a "new" category is chosen frequently by others, it could be promoted to the main category menu. I suggest a second list because I don't want the categories listto grow without bound. The venues list is a tad unweildy.

• Events Functionality
  • Block User, If there is a poster who's not so much off topic as just clogging with things that don't matter, it's not generally abusive but it's annoying. A "Dont' show me events from XbadassX" button would make me smile. Aka, Blacklist. Aka, Block User. Aka. Hide events from this poster.
  • Ability to crosspost events in multiple metros. Ie: in San Francisco & San Francisco Bay Area, or Oakland and San Francisco East Bay.
  • Multi-day events should slip into "Past Events" only after their end date, not the start date. The current behavior trashes festivals and ongoing visual arts shows.
  • Upcoming blog badge - displays 5/10 upcoming events in list form.
  • Provide a way to say an event is "global". For instance, I'd love to be able to submit "talk like a pirate day" for all metros.
  • Provide a way to easily add ticketing links. If companies see this as a way to make a buck, you'll see the listings get better. If you provide a way to have users "only show me my preferred ticketing venders", [url based filters, kind of like adblock] you can cut the problems with spam. The other option is to provide any number of ticketing links and display them in random order: company A gets no particular preference over Company B, as both are listed randomly ordered.
  • Is there a way to prevent and/or fix duplication of venues. We attached our event to one version of an already existing venue but since it is in there twice (same name, etc.) it doesn't show up if you look at the "other" one.
  • There needs to be a way to delete events. I entered an event earlier, then discovered the dates given were incorrect, and it had already finished. However there doesn't seem to be any way I can remove it.
  • Need to have more categories - what about community events, government meetings.
  • Use HTML Labels for all forms. The larger the clickable area, the faster it is to fill out the sometimes complex forms on upcoming.org. This simple change makes it much easier to naviage forms quickly.
  • Require a single tag for all events and display tags in Metro View. My reasoning is this: When scrolling through the metro views, finding an event I may like to attend is difficult unless I know what the Event Name refers to. By showing some tags at the top level view, it makes it trivially easy to figure out what an event is about. Forcing the event creator to add at least a single tag to provide some level of categorization and works in conjunction with displaying tags at the metro level to make it easier to find events that a user would be interested in.
  • It seems like some tags could be automatically added. All I've added so far is music events, but I have to pick the event type from a drop-down ... and then add a "music" tag on top of that. Couldn't the "music" tag be automagically added (and similar tags for other event types)?
  • Transferring ownership: I think it might be nice if I could pass "ownership" of an event to another user. For example, I want to add an event for the Decibel festival in Seattle, but if I do so, that means that the guy who actually RUNS the festival can only make updates via comments. It would be nice if I could add it now and then, if he ever creates an upcoming.org account, I could transfer ownership to him so that he could edit the description as more artists are added to the lineup, etc.
  • It should be possible to schedule repeating events. Daily, weekly, monthly by date, monthly by day of the week (e.g., every 2nd Tuesday, etc.)
  • The comboboxes for entering event dates are adequate, but it would be nice to be able to select the dates of some kind of calendar display.
  • I would like to see a "Recommend to friends" checkbox on an event page so if I select attend/watch, that will still show up on their homepage under "Friends' events", but an additional "Recommended" label could appear if I check the checkbox, to entice them to examine the event and consider going.
  • Please don't put zeros in front of times (e.g., "7:00 PM" instead of "07:00 PM") unless using 24 hour time. --Grant Neufeld 16:16, 30 May 2005 (PDT)
  • I'd like to be able to post events by submitting an iCalendar file (e.g., through Apple's iCal application's "publish" mechanism). --Grant Neufeld 16:27, 30 May 2005 (PDT)
  • Include event time, location and description (notes) in Upcoming's published iCalendars. --Grant Neufeld 16:27, 30 May 2005 (PDT)
  • Add a field to events for a web link (to be used for a page describing the event or the website of the group hosting the event). Include that as the url field in iCalendar data. --Grant Neufeld 16:27, 30 May 2005 (PDT)
  • Many events have a price and an age restriction. Can this be added as a field when entering an event (in the hopes that the API is modified as well)? --Mike-burns 22:58, 4 Jun 2005 (PDT)
    • Pricing won't be easy to model in the db schema: in advance vs at the door, varying prices for different seating sections. --Hybernaut 14:28, 5 Jun 2005 (PDT)
    • I've been using tags (all-ages, 18+) to indicate age restrictions, but Gordon's tag normalization strips the punctuation from them. --Hybernaut 14:28, 5 Jun 2005 (PDT)
      • Oops, sorry. I can configure Freetag to allow pluses and other special chars, but it might work strangely in the tag urls. Plus, it's working the way Andy wants it to at the moment. Can you use '18plus'? Getluky 06:34, 22 Jun 2005
  • If this site gets enough hits, maybe you could take a "leadership role" in getting venues to post XML calendar stuff on their website? I realize that success at this would kill this site, but it would make the world a better place! Come to think of it, I can't believe this hasn't already happened. --icyloner
• Views and Listings
  • Users should be able to see everything happening on a particular day across all their Metros, ie, filter by date.
  • It would be nice if the user pages used your username instead of your user number. (e.g. http://upcoming.org/user/plumpy)
  • Include <link...> metatags for the XML and iCal feeds. The former allows Mozilla to identify a live bookmark for the feed, and the latter allows extensions like [Link Toolbar] to present a pop-up list of links for the page.--Waider 08:28, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)
  • Events are currently sorted by date. It would be nice to be able to sort on all of the columns, but in particular on number of people attending.--Mavit 06:45, 24 Jul 2005 (PDT)
  • It would be easier to tell at a glance when an event is happening if the day of the week was included on event listings tables, e.g., "Sun Jul 24" rather than just "Jul 24"--Mavit 06:45, 24 Jul 2005 (PDT)
  • Sort event listings by date and time, instead of date only and then alphabetically.
  • I would really like to be able to have the venues listed in my main events lists, and also in the XML feed. In fact, all available data columns should be available so the user can customize their own view.--tavys 15:57, 21 Sep 2005 (PDT)
  • In event listings, it would nice if the event links had title attributes with the full event description, allowing me to get a tooltip. Right now many of the events get truncated with an ellipsis and I have to click into them to see what they are.--seizethedave
  • In the section "My Friends' Events" it'd be nice to highlight or hide the events that I'm also attending. --Mike-burns 12:44, 15 Dec 2005 (PST)
  • Would be nice to be abel to view listings by date added, so you can see vents added since your last visit/only new postings.
• Venue Functionality
  • There has to be a way to edit
  • Canadian postal codes don't fit in 5 spaces. They're formatted [AZ]\d[AZ]\s\d[AZ]\d
  • Some canadian Yahoo map links do not work. On event 18959 it only worked on when "Street" was removed and the country type was changed from us to ca. "st" at the end of the address also chokes Yahoo.

• Localisation
  • Set timezones. A user has a timezone, as does a metro. Make sure all events are calculated with the correct timezone. For instance, Adelaide is GMT+0930. I put in an event for 11am on the 21st of October, I don't see it until the 22nd because of server time being used. This is a major pain in the ass for people who are not based in the US and who want to utilise Upcoming.org. See also, http://pear.php.net/package/Date --CloCkWeRX
  • Migrate everything to UTF-8. World wants to use upcoming :) Really, it's very disgusting to live in XXI century and not being able to write a single letter on the website because obsolete ISO charset does not contain it. Kappa 06:51, 5 Oct 2005 (PDT)
  • Yes, the world wants to use Upcoming.org, and many parts of the world use 24h time format. It would be very nice to be able to view and enter times in 24h format as well as 12h.

• Metros
  • Quite a few metros contain objectively mistakes (I saw 'Paris' listed in Italy *and* France, IIRC); it would be nice to be able to edit metros once added (perhaps at least to make them editable to the person who added them in the first place)
  • as per "Ernie's #1 Gripe" in Gripes, please make a way to group several metros into a "meta-metro" or something, so say Berkeley, East Bay, SF, Oakland, and Bay Area could all be linked into one metro, or Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Hollywood could be another single metro.
  • Provide a way to link to a country, state, or metro based on the country_id, state_id, or metro_id from the API. Currently, if using the API, you have to keep track of parent object's code value to create a link to your site. --cbecker
  • A way to merge metros would be good, save duplicate metros being maintained (there are around 5 different "glasgow" metros at the moment).--Snowgoon 05:57, 26 Sep 2005 (PDT)
• Community and Profiles
  • Add a 'Community' link to the navigation menu (now I see it's accessible via 'Help', but that's not intuitive). --Dzagidulin 10:31, 29 Sep 2005 (PDT)
• API
  • get public events by username (user.getWatchList, make password optional to get private event attendance)
  • add tags to http://upcoming.org/services/api/event.add.php - mfagan
  • consider generating etags on responses and supporting if-modified-since on Get requests. These timestamps would, for example, reflect the last time a user watchlist was updated, etc. This would help applications that can (and, in some cases, should) cache upcoming Get results - jay fienberg (YES! - bcm)
  • get past events by username - +1 (kga245) I'd like to be able to get my past events as easily as I can my upcoming events, either by username or user_id. it would probably be easiest to add user_id as a parameter in the event.search method. of course, you'd want to return only results from events that that user_id had attended.
  • I often want to add events to Upcoming just because I love upcoming and not cause I want to go to the event. There should be a way that can view all my submitted events not just what I am attending or watching which is not necessarily something I have submitted.
  • Need some more options for type of events eg charity fundraiser and Organised dinners which don't fit the theatre category
  • Would like to be able to vote on features.

Meetup.com-Style Features

Here are the features that are needed to make Upcoming.org a viable alternative to Meetup.com:

• send reminder emails (important)
• recurring events

Past Events

• What's coming up next is cool, but what was just recently and that I was at with my friends would be cooler!
  • Andy says: You can view your past events by clicking the "Past Events" link on your homepage.
    • CloCkWeRX says: You never notice these things. What I meant to say was include recent past events on the homepage down the bottom... as well as make them a far more prominent feature for discussion.
• Especially if we could map flickr photos to it via tags...
• If past events continue to live forever, then the permalink can be used as a reference in blog postings, etc.
  • Maybe TrackBack? This could help with the problem of referencing e.g. Flickr photos or Web log posts.
• For Flickr, etc, maybe we can use a tag like "Upcoming:event:13812" to tag photos from event 13812. Would the 'event' part be strictly necessary?
  • Since users can already do this, we should standardize on the tag, and maybe past events could have a link to the Technorati page for that tag. The "event:" bit isn't needed, as you point out, so the tag for event 12345 should be "upcoming:12345". A "Blog this" (Blogger, LJ, AtomAPI, etc.), "Link this" (Del.icio.us, Furl), "Photograph this" (Flickr), etc. link from a past event could help with this.
• I'd like to be able to enter past events. I want to move all events, past and future, from my society's events pages to upcoming.org. Then I could query upcoming.org to display a list of all events the society hosted before today.

Tours / Multimetro events / Unlocalized events

Some events tour a country, for instance, Australia's Big Day Out. There's little in the way of change between lineup for each metro, so an easy way to globally create an event then add metro specific details would be excellent.

Also, some events aren't related to one localization. For example, movies release dates, meteor showers...

Artists as first-order objects

I'd really like to see artists as persistent objects in the database, which can have description, discussion, and tags.
OK, maybe discussion would just get out of control, but the tagging is currently weakened because tags and comments in one metro
aren't seen in other metros. Increasing the scope of the tags by applying them to the artist (not the event) would help a lot.

Extended discussion of this topic on Hybernaut's blog.

Inbox

Just tack new stuff on here for now if you don't know where it should go:

• Indicate if an event has have already taken place, when looking at the event data page (sometime you don't always remember today's date)

• Add RSS Feed for popular events.

• Add 'Send invitation to join Upcoming' functionality to the Friends page with space for friend's email address(es), which will send nicely formatted email saying is sending invitation. See Netflix for example. --rossburnett 08:39, 17 Oct 2005 (PDT)

• Integrate Pollstar.com band tour schedule info so that we're not all redundantly entering data they already track perfectly well. Would be great to import/integrate my pollstar.com "notify" list as well so that my favorite bands are entered automatically.

• Let's see some cross-yahoo company collaboration. A JSON url for my events would be excellent. del.icio.us lists theirs here: http://del.icio.us/help/json

Event IMPORT

I'd love to be able to import my own iCal events - but it's even more important for adding other events. It's pretty easy to find sports team schedules - but I have no interest in entering the 82 games on the Atlanta Thrashers' schedule one at a time.

Ditto on this! Will help speed things up when getting a group started, at least -- shellig 19 Sep 05

fine grained RSS feeds

You should be able to subscribe to events specified by:

• tag+user
• venue+tag
• metro+tag
• tag+tag+user, etc...

Similar to this, I also like the idea of less details in my RSS feed(s); currently using Bloglines to access all my upcoming subscribed feeds (13), and just noticed that you need to click the "+' to reveal details of events in 'my events' feed. I think this is a great idea, and wish it could an option extended to all feeds - i.e. Event Name, Type of Event, Date (eg. Bill Maher, Performance, Jan. 1st) so we can quickly skim those events not of interest. If this is available in other feedreaders, please let me know. thanks!

--Rmm 17:36, 7 Jan 2006 (PST)

pubdate in RSS feed

I'd like events to show up in RSS feeds when they're announced. The Upcoming.org interface and the iCal feeds are sufficient to keep track of events once we're aware of them. The RSS feed is for announcements. I have one merged feed of my Amazon wishlist, my del.icio.us links and a few other things. They are very helpfully sorted by pubdate but upcoming.org events always float to the top which defeats the entire point of merging the feeds.

create groups

It would be neat to be able to have groups so you can friend them and have their related events show up on your main page, like meetups for MeFi and Fipi Lele, gallery openings and walks for SF Flickr and NYC Photobloggers, etc.

--Lia 14:50, 20 Jun 2005 (PDT)

In case you're wondering why I've been so quiet on the bug hunting front recently, all of my time on Upcoming has been devoted to this lately. I have a great deal of it completed, and it should be done very soon! Good thinking, though. :)
-- Getluky 06:36, 22 Jun 2005 (PDT)

This is now available!
-- --Getluky 16:40, 10 Sep 2005 (PDT)

iCal feeds show proper time

I would really appreciate proper iCalendar feeds that show the proper time and venue, and possible descriptions. Currently in OS X iCal events are all listed as "All Day Events". (I third that! Now that iPods sync with iCal, this is getting more important.)

subscribe upcoming to feeds

It would be great if a person / venue / organization could post a link to their feed and have upcoming subscribe to it instead of manually posting events. I realize this is not technically trivial as there would have to be an agreed standard for addresses and so on.

• Instead, they could post to Upcoming then use the API to generate the feed entry or Web site.

Upcoming Mobile

I'd like to see my event watchlist on my mobile phone.
I think all that's necessary is a stripped-down HTML version of the users page.

Tags in feeds

I'd like to see tags in feeds too, not only in HTML. Maybe in dc:type elements?. See a modified feed at http://landsbank.fo/test/1198x.rss

• http://upcoming.org/tag/leikfimi/
• http://upcoming.org/tag/theatresports/

Janegil 08:41, 2 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Or just throw them in with the other categories:

• Sports
• http://upcoming.org/tag/handball/
• http://upcoming.org/tag/h71/

because there is no significant semantic difference between your categories and your tags.
Janegil 01:10, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Event module elements in feeds

The elements from the RSS 1.0 Events Module could be useful in upcoming.org feeds. Especially in the present situation, with all metros placed in the -8 time zone, the rule that ev: times are local by default, is a good thing. See example at http://landsbank.fo/test/1198x.rss, where I have added

• Education (from the Category of the event)
• http://upcoming.org/venue/1198/
• 2005-06-07T19:00:00 (Note the lack of time zone, which in this context implies local time)
• 2005-06-07T22:00:00

(Yes, the event module is an extension of RSS 1.0, but it seems to validate as RSS 2.0)

Janegil 08:53, 2 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Syndication links on member page

It would be good to have links to syndication files on a member's page. How else am I supposed to keep track of what my friends are up to? Entering the URLs by hand works (e.g. http://upcoming.org/syndicate/my_events/XXXX), but links straight through (as on the homepage once you've logged in) would be really useful, as would be an auto-detection link to the RSS for that user's upcoming events.--Pipthepixie

Test Notifications

Configuring the notifications can be tricky--especially SMS. And any errors will result in failed notification some time in the
future, when the user expects the notification to succeed. It would be nice if the configuration page had a 'Test' button
which would schedule an immediate notification. Of course you can rate limit it to prevent abuse, but this way you could determine
for sure whether your configuration is correct.

--Hybernaut 07:39, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)

A Feed for Updated Events

I subscribe to my metro's RSS feed, hoping to catch newly listed or modified events. However, most of the action is at the bottom of the list, and my RSS feed reader seems to drop some of those notifications now that the list of all events is very long. It would be very nice to have a metro 'modified events' feed, in addition to the current 'all events' feed. That way I don't have to visually sift through the entire event list looking for new events.

--Hybernaut 07:43, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)

URLs use username, not user ID

I should be able to access my user page via http://upcoming.org/user/pipthepixie/ as well as/instead of http://upcoming.org/user/3696/. After all, it's not as if users can change their username, and this would be very useful. --Pipthepixie 10:59, 18 Jun 2005

Venue Tags

If we could tag venues, then it would be possible to add GeoTags. This would be super nice, because then people could build apps that would allow people to using Upcoming.org with things like Google Earth or Google Maps! --Jpick 15:04, 10 Jul 2005 (PDT)

• We'll be geotagging all venues and metros soon. --Waxpancake 22:42, 10 Jul 2005 (PDT)

• If a straight RSS feed with geo:lat and geo:long data were available that could be fed right into the Yahoo! Maps API. If you wanted to just use the address instead and were ok using Yahoo's namespace'd stuff you could use ymaps:Address and ymaps:CityState for each item... --Raster 14:55, 8 Aug 2005 (PDT)

• Any progress on GeoTagging? --Pete Prodoehl 12:54, 14 Nov 2005 (PST)

Recurring events

It would be nice if there were a way to create templates for recurring events (e.g., user group meetings). While there tend to be differences between instances of these events (e.g., speaker or topic), they are mostly similar from event to event (times, tags, venues, etc.). --cristol 1:12, 29 Jul 2005 (EDT)

This would also be nice when you have an event on two consecutive days rather than having to type it in twice. -- shellig 19 Sep 05

Is there any ETA for this? I would really like to add a bunch of LA theater productions so that I can display the shows on my badge, but there are usually 20-30 identical shows for these, and it would be madness to enter them by hand. This is one of the features that I think keeps upcoming.org from being truly useful, at least for my purposes... any word on when this might be available? -- claytonHowl 13 Dec 05

Ditto here. Libertarian groups would like to schedule our monthly recurring local meetings in each metro, once per metro, and send them to the state party's group's listing. They are pretty consistent over time in terms of place, time and date. We also have repeating annual events, like activities on Tax Day, Election Day, Bill of Rights Day. -- infojunkie, Jan 1, 2006

More Details in RSS Feed

If the RSS feeds included details about the Venues, like Venue Type (ex Museum), Venue address, city, state, phone number, website Url, etc. That would be great. Also, if more details about the show could be great as well. Details like opening acts, and doors open time, show starts time, etc. --kevinf 5:42, 09 Aug 2005 (EDT)

At the very minimum, I'd like the name of the Venue for each Event included in the feed. My example use case is a local band using upcoming.org as their show calendar, and processing their RSS feed to post show dates on their own website. Since event titles are recommended to be artist names separated by commas, the only place to get the venue name from a feed is the tag. And this requires some post-processing-fu to slice everything after "at" (e.g. The Beatles, Rolling Stones at The Venue) so show dates can be listed like this:
"The Venue Sep 09"
"The Lounge Sep 10"
etc.
--Zerokarmaleft

Chunked feed problem?

I use ASP (and XSLT) to transform the Eiði feed into HTML. (Most recent testing has been done at http://www.hsjonleik.fo/xslt/hs.asp)

The error from ASP, 'System does not support the specified encoding' doesn't make sense, the feed seems to be nicely encoded in ISO-8859-1.

But something has changed, maybe ASP is unable to consume chunked feeds? (I hate to ask for un-chunked feeds, just to correct for a bug in ASP.)

Janegil 07:28, 30 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Janegil: I dug around a bit, and I found this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q304625

Do you think it might be related to the fact that we print out our charset in lowercase 'iso-8859-1' instead of 'ISO-8859-1'? Could you copy and paste the feed to somewhere else, and return it to your ASP in ISO-8859-1 instead, within the HTTP header and the
Thanks! -- --Getluky 16:45, 10 Sep 2005 (PDT)

Sorry for this late response. But now I have looked into it, and my working local feed do share encoding="iso-8859-1" with the troublesome upcoming feed, so I don't think the encoding
spec is the problem.

Log file from my test server's feed reads.

Main differences between response from http://upcoming.org/syndicate/venue/1198/
(not working) and 127.0.0.1/xslt/1198.xml (working):

• Connection:
  • local: close
  • upcoming: Keep-Alive
• Content-Type:
  • local: text/xml
  • upcoming: text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1
• Content-Length: missing from upcoming
• Transfer-Encoding:
  • local: missing
  • upcoming: chunked

In addition, upcoming delivers 1c8 before the XML, and 0 after it.
(I suppose that should be removed by the client as part of a 'de-chunking' process?
It is not visible when I view the feed with a browser, nor with XML Spy.)

When I look at your feed with HTML Test, it is not chunked, so maybe if I can
get IIS to issue its request with connection: close?

If it is of use for anyone, I saved HTTPLook's
log.

Anyway, I hope to lay my hands on a PHP server at iKongsberg.com within a few weeks.
Janegil 12:45, 24 Jan 2006 (PST)

Karma

It would be cool if your profile tracked some kind of karma or brownie points that you'd get for
contributing public non-promotional events (say 1 point for adding an event and 1 point for each person who watches or attends). They'd be worthless, but it would be a pat on the back for contributing and would hopefully encourage people to send in events.

The first problem that pops into my mind is that people could easily write a program to scrape e.g. http://ttthebears.com/public/calendar.php and instantly get far too many karma points. Programmers have too much of an advantage here. Mike-burns 15:01, 18 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Yeah, that's true. The big problem with scraping is that lots of crap would be submitted. I'm already worried about the post-Yahoo growth of the site. Upcoming doesn't have fine grained categories and the tagging doesn't seem to be very popular in my metros (Boston, etc). What happens if bulk additions of self-promotional events start flooding in? casey 17:05, 18 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Flickr links

It would be nice to be able to directly link to photos on flickr, e.g. if it's a recurring event and it is possible to show photos of the last one.
To make this work easily a link between the two accounts might be created (it's all yahoo anyway, isn't it? ;-) and you can then give a tag or a set name to be shown there.
MrTopf 16:29 25 Oct 2005

I would prefer to be able to pick from my sets and pictures and have Upcoming link thumbnails back to Flickr. --Revgeorge 10:50, 12 Jan 2006 (PST)

I think the first step to Flickr integration should be to encode tags in the same way. But before anyone adapts to Flickr tags, I think Flickr should adapt to Technorati tags. There are e.g. 3 different tags for 'Eiðis Bjargingarfelag':

• upcoming.org: eiisbjargingarfelag
• flickr.com: ei%C3%B0isbjargingarfelag
• technorati.com: Ei%C3%B0is%20Bjargingarfelag

Janegil 07:55, 24 Jan 2006 (PST)

Open Source

Will this code ever be open source? I understand you're still under development and it might be easier to keep all the work done by yourself for now, but do you ever plan on opening the source so users can submit patches, etc?

• Possibly, but not in the short term. It opens up a mess of issues we don't have time to deal with right now. --Waxpancake 02:03, 23 May 2005 (PDT)

Upcoming Mini

It would be useful have an "Upcoming Mini-Add Event" screen (similar to "Spiderous Mini":http://spiderous.textocean.com/article/8/spiderous-mini ) that could be loaded in the Firefox sidebar. That way if you find something in your email or on a website that you want to add as an event, you can load "Add Event" in the sidebar without navigating away from the email or website that has the info. I tried loading the existing "Add Event" page to my Firefox sidebar, but the floating right column was on top of the the input fields.

Charsets

The RSS feeds seem to be sent with no charset, and the html pages seem to be sent with iso-8859-1. Is there a chance all could be sent as utf-8?

As far as I can see, the HTML pages has the encoding specified both in the HTTP header, and inside the page, while the feeds only specifiy encoding inside the feed. Some [validators] claim that the MIME type text/xml needs the encoding to be specified in the HTTP header (content-type: text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1). In practice, most applications will treat the feed as ISO-8859-1. However, [feedmap.net] has a problem reading iso-8859-1 characters from your feed, maybe it would help if you did one of the following:

• specify charset in the HTTP header
• change the MIME type to application/rss+xml

Janegil 05:27, 6 Jun 2005 (PDT)

• All RSS feeds should be sent with content-type: text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1 now. --Getluky 18:55, 31 Aug 2005 (PDT)
  • How is this a solution? :) Why not send everything in utf-8? It's XXI century and iso charsets just don't work anymore. E.g. I cannot add a single event at mine 'cause none of needed characters is in iso-8859-1. Kappa 06:48, 5 Oct 2005 (PDT)
  • I agree with Kappa. All feeds should be sent as utf-8, not iso-8859-1. --Pete Prodoehl 12:53, 14 Nov 2005 (PST)

API Requests

• Retrieving a user's id from their username.

This is now available via the user.getIdByUsername method.

-- --Getluky 16:46, 10 Sep 2005 (PDT)

• A set of group-related methods. -- Cobra libre 10:12, 27 Sep 2005 (PDT)

• Add Tags to an event via the API

• Retrieve a users past events via API access -- [[User: Surj] Nov 21 2005]
• REST API - watchlist.getList have a sort parameter (eg: date of the event)

Translation

• Hope site's translations will appear soon.

Groups

• In addition to "My Groups" and "My Friends' Groups" there should be a "My Metros' Groups" which lists groups that have events in the user's metros.

Favourite icon and button/badge

nevermind - the upcoming folks have implimented my suggestion of a fav.ico file. Very cool. If anyone wants a badge for the upcoming site, my one is here:

• Good suggestion, I just added this to the site! --Getluky 18:27, 8 Nov 2005 (PST)

Sending events to other users

any chance you can set it up to send events to other Upcoming users? you've got an 'invite by email', and 'send to group' (which are both wonderful) - any chance of a 'send to user' function, with the possibility of sending a small message (like in Bloglines, StumbleUpon)?

btw do you guys check this wiki still? In the process of adding this I got a warning msg. ("This page is 31 kilobytes long; some browsers may have problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please consider breaking the page into smaller sections."). Dunno if you want to edit this page to get rid of the stuff you've already done...
--Rmm 11:06, 16 Jan 2006 (PST)