(01-08-2018, 01:31 AM)Erah Wrote: Yeah, the lack of the calendar being in use here for Balmung is likely a bit my fault.... I've been poking on occasion Unnamed Mercenary on ways to get around that in the future. A good number of the calendar events I pull for the Balmung RP Calendar comes out of the events forum but they don't make calendar entries here because it's double work.
The bolded part. So much. Not to mention the various pitfalls and bugs in the built-in calendar that make it a pain for many users. (Like, "guess the timezone in use" and "recurring events only show up the first time they're made" on the front page, which is about 95% of people's calendar use on the site.)
(stuff below is generic reply. I'm too lazy to doublepost)
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Even still though, I never understood why people never just...added a prefix? Like "[Mateus] Event Name", "[Omega] Another Event Name", or so. It kinda goes back to what I've already said above. Persion bias in thinking the RPC is/was "only for Balmung" is at it again. And a lot of things that could change that perception, which would work just fine on the existing site aren't made use of.
Not to mention the RPC calendar predates all of the alternatives by years. Things like the google calendars which then make nice tumblr/discord posts came -way- later and nateually have customized features designed for their specific uses.
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The calendar in IPS is a bit smarter and has better core features for getting events to display nicely. I'm still playing around with what will end up on the front page because that has to be set by an admin. It'll probably be set up similarly to now, where the main page displays an RPC-hosted list of entries, since we need some sort of sane limit to the number of entries displayed. Or like now, it'll just grab the first 5 entries from all calendars and display that.
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Another edit. This is what one possibility could look like on the relaunch. I've continued to ask for feedback so that we can have something polished that will get used.
![[Image: tSJgArL.png]](https://i.imgur.com/tSJgArL.png)
As a general reminder, the test site is live, but logins/content creation is limited to Patreon users and those who opt-in to keep bandwidth/usage low as this is paid out my pockets to host.
