Today we are adding a new dimension to posts. You can now label a post as an event with a specific date.
We have plans for how we want to expand upon event posts (including getting notifications for ones that you save), but thought it best to introduce them in their simplest form, and then to be guided in their development by your use and feedback.
To see all events, simply click upon ‘event’ in any event post. By clicking upon the date of a specific event, you can see that event, and all events scheduled to come after it.
Like community tagging, you must have earned one badge to give away before being able to create events. If you can create an event, you'll see a 'create event' link in the upper right of the submission fields.
As always, feedback is much appreciated.
Interesting. How will an upwheeled post behave over time? Say I make an event for a week from now, and I hubvote it now, will it resurface in the hours before / after the event date and time? On a more general note, I appreciate the open experimentation. It does make hubski more and more complex - something to keep in the back of your mind.
I think it could for people that saved the event. I agree about the complexity. We are trying to make events as in line with the current functionality as possible. If we find a way to simplify it even more, then we will. All ideas are welcome. We did find a need whereby people scheduled things, but had to keep posting reminders. Perhaps a different approach is a 'pull' functionality, whereby people can set their own timed reminders for posts?Say I make an event for a week from now, and I hubvote it now, will it resurface in the hours before / after the event date and time?
The conceptual jump from saving a post to joining an event is too big, I think. Saving is by definition passive - the creator of the post doesn't care if you save it or not. Joining in on an event, be it a movie club or an IRC thing, is quite the opposite. Especially if you include a list of participants on the post itself. Two solutions: 1) to make joining events a separate thing, and have a 'join event' button. Clicking this will add the post to your events (visible to you or not. Maybe something for on your bio page as cards under Recent activity?). 2) to make saving a post the same thing as joining an event. When I would go to my saved posts, I could see a list of upcoming events I've 'saved'. Both 1 and 2 would have the effect that the event pops up on your feed on the day it happens, and if the user specifies a time, the hours before and after that time and date. Also, might it be an idea to give upcoming events a place on the Community page? Ninja edit: also, can you replace the month with something like 'sept', 'jul' etcetera? Only Americans use the YYYY/DD/MM format.
Barh. I am in a coffeeshop and the wifi has just become very spotty. I have to stop messing for a bit. Joining an event might be a good idea, but there is more complexity there. It would be interesting to see who joined an event, but people might not actually want to join, and yet be notified, or to join anonymously. For that reason, I don't think we'd make a list of people that joined. I think that saving an event might be the way to go. Perhaps with either the option to see only events, or to have a separate list of events that you've saved? It's in YYYY/MM/DD format currently. That's the international standard AFAIK. Is that ok?
YYY/MM/DD is ISO standard. some people prefer DD/MM/YYYY, but i think the ISO makes more sense. It runs like HH:MM:SS on a clock. when an integer "rolls over", the next column is affected.
I've used task management/team communication programs in the past that have similar features. An online program called slack does this quite well, as you just type in a command and it automatically adds the alert. ex: /remind me in 2 hours to eat cake
I can now schedule posts (events) in advance of their post date? Or I make the event post and set the date in the future (ie for a meetup or something similar)? Or both?To see all events, simply click upon ‘event’ in any event post. By clicking upon the date of a specific event, you can see that event, and all events scheduled to come after it.
Yes, you can assign any date to a post. You can see all events occurring today and after by clicking on the date on this post (or here). The intention is that people can see all upcoming events in one place. I am quite sure that we will be expanding upon this sorting functionality.
What about an iCal feed option? Maybe turned on with a query option?
FYI, you borked the submit to hubski button. Now the title goes in the URL field and the URL goes in the date field.