Discourse Event (Official) v. Events Plugin (Pavilion)

[agungor (Arman Gungor)]

We are getting ready to create an events calendar in our Discourse instance, and I am trying to choose between Discourse Event and the Events Plugin.

Reading the Events Plugin thread, the impression I got was that Pavilion recommends using the official Discourse Calendar and Discourse Event plugin when possible ^[1].

On the other hand, it doesn’t look like Discourse Event provides an iCalendar feed for the event calendar yet—which is a great, and in my view, essential feature of the Events Plugin. Is this really the case, or have I completely missed how to activate this feature?

I am also wondering what the disadvantages of starting to use the Events Plugin at this point would be. Two that I can think of are: i) If it is discontinued in the near future, we would have to migrate to the official plugin ii) Since the Events Plugin is not official, there is a greater chance that it can break (or cause a Discourse rebuild to fail) as new Discourse versions are released.

Thoughts and suggestions from users of these plugins would be greatly appreciated

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1. Events Plugin

   Hey there, As mentioned in the OP Please take a moment to consider whether the new Event features in the Discourse Calendar plugin made by the Discourse team are right for you. If they meet your needs, we recommend using that plugin. You should only use this plugin if you’ve already first considered Discourse Calendar. We recommend you use the Discourse Calendar Plugin if you can. We only support this plugin for specific use cases that are not fulfiled by that plugin. Happily, the Calenda…

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[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Hey @agungor

@agungor

i) If it is discontinued in the near future, we would have to migrate to the official plugin

I can confirm that there is no chance the Events Plugin will be discontinued in the near future. Actually the opposite, we’re gearing up to launch business-grade subscriptions for it.

@agungor

Since the Events Plugin is not official, there is a greater chance that it can break (or cause a Discourse rebuild to fail) as new Discourse versions are released

As we’re gearing up to launch a subscription-version of the plugin we’re very conscious of this risk and have a long history of successfully managing it.

Feel free to reach out to myself or @RGJ if you have any further questions about the Events Plugin.

[agungor (Arman Gungor)]

@angus

I can confirm that there is no chance the Events Plugin will be discontinued in the near future. Actually the opposite, we’re gearing up to launch business-grade subscriptions for it.

Happy to hear that, @angus! I am not concerned as long as the plugin is being actively developed Thanks for clearing that up.