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by opheron 1553 days ago
Jumping on to agree and add on to the parent suggestions by their list's numbers:

1) I agree the map takes up a lot screen space. Maybe do something like Yelp, where there are alternative views for map of events vs. events list.

2) In addition to allowing browsing specific events and groups.

5) Definitely agree with the current filters being confusing. Maybe a tagging system with a curated set of tags instead or in parallel to the categories might be better, to allow multiple tags per event. I also think having a very granular filtering system with a lot more filter options for things like number of attendees, number of shares, etc. could be important to users.

7) Agreed that making a recommendation system that's able to indicate popularity/importance/significance is a big, hard problem, but that it also could be a very attractive feature to users. Possibly you could have registered organizations "vote" to support other organization's events as one factor - it would help with spam and noise filtering.

Also, it would be good to have a policy statement about how you will handle controversy about events and organizations.

I really like the overall concept, and wish you luck!