consider/discuss plan of showing events either starting today or from 1 week ago + show next 3 weeks?

[gregsadetsky]

for @nycnoise 's consideration:

pros:

• less scrolling to get to current events - current info would be closer to the top of the page
• makes it much easier near the end of the month to see events for the next days - obviously, worst cases are always the last days of the current month where you absolutely have to go to the next month's page (i.e. scroll completely up to the calendar and click a date in the next month)

cons:

• changes site / what people are used to seeing
• a tad more complexity to handle in the top calendar - some dates (i.e. tomorrow) would link to the same page, while others (8 days ago in the same month) would have to link to the full month page

[nycnoise]

i am officially VERY INTO this idea of last wks + next 3 wks, especially after having the "future" setup in event adding for a bit...

[gregsadetsky]

some other rando thoughts...

• start listings at current day i.e. like https://www.mucnoise.com/ or https://bostonshows.org/ etc. ? pros: more immediate, no calendar clicking
• remove calendar completely - big screen saving especially on mobile
• add links (instead of cal) to previous / current / next month - i.e. equivalent to /2024-02/ - pros: these links take a lot less space.
• had another crazy idea: only load today + 7 days into the future (site will load extremely quickly), and add "infinite scroll" i.e. as you scroll, it just keeps adding more days...! with everything above i.e. no cal, and links to other months.

pros/cons for all of these approaches, and obviously a departure from what you have today. but the big bonus of having a database is that we can experiment with these pretty easily. and see which we like / you feel is good, etc.!

oh and also, I do think that moving content up would be good, again especially on mobile

compare the current mobile homepage and what it could be below:

[nycnoise]

OOOOH okay wait is the idea that it looks like that second image, but if you click "march" you can see the full calendar month??? bc i LOVE that

[nycnoise]

i think i actually need to poll people & find out how often people are checking for days other than day-of...

[gregsadetsky]

Yeah 100%. Default to today-at-the-top, and month names link to full calendars e.g. what we already show on /2024-03

Then we just decide whether we show 1-2 weeks (site will load in 50ms...) and then just have links to previous / current / next months in the footer and that's it.....???

Super easy lift

[gregsadetsky]

we're live with an experiment: https://nyc-noise.com/no_cal !

feel free to send people there/check it out and we can iterate from this?

small notes:

• I temporarily removed the mailing list subscription form, I suggest moving it under the burger menu (i.e. same place where the search is)
• you'll probably notice but the last/curr/next month links appears both at the top and bottom of the page
• just a reminder for myself - a little bit less margin-bottom on the bottom month links div
• I'd also suggest maybe removing the "pwa" i.e. "install nyc-noise" prompt since it takes so much space? and revisit it later?