Calendars on Forums

[Cedric]

Arguably one of the least used features on forums. Are you a person who use the calendar for specific reasons?

 

[Phabbyfundz]

I don't really look out for calendars in a forum but it is really helpful and useful if a forum has one.

I have joined a general topics forum in the past that has a calendar.

 

[ClicketyKat]

We had a calendar when we used Vbulletin and a few people did use it. Now we no longer have it since we migrated to Xenforo and I kind of miss it. I'm a calendar person and enjoy having reminders of special events.

 

[Cory]

Never use them generally and hide them publicly. I generally run forum service boards where there is not much use for them.

 

[Shortie]

It really depends on the kind of forum you have and if you can make use of the calendar on your forum. I know when I had my general discussion forum, I would use the calendar to add members birthdays to it so that members knew when it was a members birthday and we could wish them a happy birthday on that day. Some even chose to add things such as the birth of their children, the birthday of their animals and even anniversaries which was nice as we could then see when they were celebrating something and leave them a nice message on the forum.

 

[Heatman]

Personally, I'm not sure if I would be interested in using calendars in my forum. I'm not sure if I have seen any forum that makes use of it in a long time. The only place I can remember seeing it is in the registration stage where the member is expected to fill out their date of birth.

 

[Reverie]

I used it during hide and seek/scavenger hunt contests lol. Otherwise I didn't really use them. We would put event dates on it sometimes - but I don't think it got used much.

 

[Ken]

Arguably one of the least used features on forums. Are you a person who use the calendar for specific reasons?

Yeah, I use it to fill in holidays for each month.

 

[Tracy]

For my niche... a calendar could be beneficial.. but what I would MUCH rather see is a group function with a calendar that can be shared amongst the group and then the public as separate items. That way, group calendar items specific to that group are visible only to them... then those functions that they allow public attendance to would show up in a general calendar. I keep hoping that Truonglv (the social group developer I had to go with) will implement it, but either he has no interest or it's beyond his current coding skill.

 

[Clarice]

They can be important for those who do things such as contests, challenges, and want to keep track of dates for events on your board or site.

 

[Oblivion Knight]

I kinda missed the standard Calendar from the vBulletin days..

I initially combined and customised the Birthday Calendar and standard Calendar add-ons by AndyB, and then migrated over to the Calendar add-on by NixFifty. However, I later decided to get rid of some bloat, and this was one of the add-ons that was culled. It wasn't really being utilised to its potential.

Perhaps once the upgrade to the broadband infrastructure in my area is complete, and I upgrade my plan - I might re-visit the feature and schedule some live streams.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I never really used the calendar feature on any of my forums. It can definitely be beneficial for communities that's based around an organization to plan events.