Events Plugin 📆

I’d like to share some thoughts with you guys:

I absolutely love this plugin. :heart_eyes:

It solves a lot of issues I’ve previously had by managing lectures and other courses inside Discourse. Discoure is not just great for civil discussions, it also enables me to keep track on knowledge and development cycles. Unfortunately, the events plugin drives me a little bit crazy.

  1. There is fear about future updates and dependencies, that won’t might work any longer. It would be so great, if the core dev team of Discourse would integrate this plugin by default. If the day will come and the plugin stops working, I possibly can’t access to the topics any longer. Date and time information, that are extremely relevant, might be no longer available. Especially, if the only workaround to get rid of usability issues, is to disable the plugin.

  2. I have a looooot of old events, I’d like to see (in the right order) into the calendar and agenda. But each edit will highlight the old topic at the categories startpage as new / recent activity. This will be very confusing for others to see, if I bring up topics from 2016 and newer. But how can I disable this?

What do you think guys

Should I stop at the very beginning and keep my old schema of topic names with Date and Name of the event or should I risk a full migration of all events, at least the new ones?

For sure, I can work with manual created TOCs and link each topic/event as I do right know. But I really like to see a more secure, reliable future for this incredible plugin.

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