Hello, when users click “going” for a weekly repeated event, normally their votes disappiered right after the event and you could always see the new votes for next week. Now they accumulate to a Long list. I might have changed some configuration about the visibility of events but I do not find it …

Maybe I need to describe it better: you have a weekly repeated event Monday evening 7-8pm some people have clicked going, interessted or not coming and this is shown by the respective symbol on their listed avatar next Monday at 8:01pm all those symbols are gone, avatars stay listed but greyed out …

Hi Ann — sorry for the delay here, but thanks for reaching out about this! You’re right, this was a recent change to RSVP to the current and future instances of recurring events. We’re discussing this internally to see how we might improve upon this further. I’ll follow up with more information once…

Hello @lindsey , do you have further information on this topic? At the moment we are exporting the event to see who changed their state when and then remove them from the list manually. That’s a bit of a hassle. Thank you for any update

Hi @anko127 — thank you for following up! I can appreciate how much of a hassle this manual effort has been, and we definitely want to fix that up for you. Our plan is to improve recurring events to allow people to choose whether they are RSVPing to the single upcoming event, or to every event in t…

Hello @lindsey , Do you have any update on this topic? To Reset the participants list when the Event has passed. Thank you

I’m afraid I don’t have an update for you, @anko127 — this is still in our backlog but we have not yet prioritized it for development. I’ll discuss with the team to see when we might be able to pick this up.

I think it was working when I startet using Discourse prior autumn 2024, could it just be a misconfigured setting like keeping History for the Event?

We are experiencing exactly the same issue described above. In our community we run many recurring events (support groups, body doubling sessions, regular meetings). Because the participant list for recurring events is not reset, the list quickly becomes inaccurate and continues to grow over time. …

[image] Aurora: In our community we run many recurring events (support groups, body doubling sessions, regular meetings). Because the participant list for recurring events is not reset, the list quickly becomes inaccurate and continues to grow over time. I’m not 100% sure what is but it looks…

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lindsey (Lindsey Fogle) May 18, 2026, 2:49pm 17

I’m happy to share that Discourse now supports more granular RSVPs on recurring events. Members can now choose between RSVPing to a single occurrence of the event, or to all future occurrences. You can learn more about this here:

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