Incoming!

Excellent. I can't help but think a few users will have plenty of feedback *cough* complaints *cough* about the new site for you to get your teeth into. I liked the 'old' site, and wasn't expecting a change.

I haven't looked around properly yet, but am glad to see people are still actually hard at work on Upcoming - you guys and gals have been quiet for a while.

Edit: I'm loving some of the new stuff - like the new fields for tickets and cost in the 'Add Event' forms. I don't know if the ability to add events to your Yahoo! Calendar is new, but that's also cool (now the mail team just need to drag the calendar out of the late 90s, and allow it to sync with other things easily).

I was disappointed to see that:

- Venue locations haven't been opened up and it's still the case that only the original author can edit

- That there's no way of 'importing' friends from your Yahoo! Address Book, other email account, Facebook account, etc.

- The 'new' I'm Going / I'm Interested widget has been replaced for a newer one that doesn't render correctly in my browser (I am using Opera, though).

Dopeness. I think printing of maps with info like that is awesome. Let's see some gas stations and maybe optional bus stops/train depots. I'd like to get out and enjoy L.A. with or without a car.

I've loved this site for a long time and it's great to see growth that encourages people to do things they're interested in.

I've been watching the robot add increasing numbers of events, and it seems like the duplicate detection still needs a lot of work -- and the robot /still/ doesn't get good descriptions or URLs for events very often, which means I have to go to competing sites to figure out how & where to buy tickets.

Like the new add-ons! I am looking forward to work with the team in two weeks! :)
-Elsa

Awesome! I wish I could log into Upcoming without a Yahoo ID. Maybe you guys can work on becoming an OpenID relying party?

*sigh* still no option to make events transferabe i.e. having to rely on the right person adding the event and filling it instead of adding it and letting somebody else fill it up, still no option to share the work.

if you just want to become 'yet another site where the information may or may not be displayed', congrats, you are working on that.

So I gues nothing new for the organizers of the event - I mean, who does need the content of such events more than a site about events - oh wait that is what you have your robot for. Right.

So just a site for users anymore, who will find all information available like really relevant things like "where is the next atm machine nearby".

Of course, some idiots would have wanted a chance to actually enter a date range, get rid of the stupid preselection in the location or just to be able to have better search and find mechanisms ... but who cares about such people, right? Even less about areas like really having an option for the users to just use the local time and date features he or she is used to, because why should one care if there is no other site available like upcoming!

Oh wait, there is. Plenty of them. Congrats for doing another push to something useful.

@jdfalk good feedback, I suspect adding fields for Buy Tickets will encourage event-adders to provide the links you need, but dupe detection is a different beast -- more on that soon.

Is there any way to get the old event list back - where it just listed the event title with a little 'new' icon if appropriate? I can live without screenshots and event details when I'm trying to quickly scan a list, they just get in the way - now I can only see six events on screen at the same time.

The Robot is a disaster. I found a whole series of events that were added in the WRONG VENUE. The venues are MILES apart. I just now went back to check to see if the report I sent in about the error was fixed, and instead I now find DUPLICATE listings for the SAME event at yet another WRONG venue.

Error-fixing/editing by either users or staff should be a top priority for you, before you try to scale this up. Bad data is worse than no data at all, especially when it might mean a user ending up at the wrong venue, miles out of their way.

I've noticed the maps are quite inaccurate. I initally thought this was because the venue address was incorrect, but even when the address and postcode are correct, the map tells me that the venue's on the other side of town to what it actually is.

Like the revised user interface and new features.

Looking forward to further improvements!

I really loved seeing both my events and ones my friends were attending on the same page. Is there any way to still see this? I found it infinitely helpful!!!

Liked it better as upcoming.org 1.0 when I could easily see what my friends are up to.

The POPULAR | TODAY | RECENTLY ADDED | FRIENDS tabs need to stick on re-visits to the homepage.

Also, did your CAPS LOCK KEYS GET STUCK?

Also, do you all have your monitors tilted 90°? The homepage is way too heighty. There should not be descriptions on the homepage. Don't you realize how much stuff is going on in major cities?!

I banked on upcoming being the events site that would dominate but it has kept weakening for my use case, which is: finding events to attend with friends. The time has come to move on to the next Web 2.0 events site.

great!

Glad to see things are still happening with Upcoming. Keep up the good work guys. A few comments on the redesign.

1. Might be good to beta test changes like this a little before switching. At least have some sort of 'what changed' module when i first login to help me orient myself.
2. Really like the newly organized event pages. Clean, helpful and also take into consideration events in the past.
3. Not digging the new top nav. The grouping of categories doesn't make much sense to me with the way I use the site. What's inside of the groupings isn't well discoverable from the group title.
4. Let's get some cross browser testing in here. Things work in Safari, but fonts aren't balanced and paddings are off which make the site look off. Maybe it's just me, but when paddings and fonts aren't aligned the site feels slightly broken.
5. Not a fan of the homepage redesign. To narrow and now my 'dashboard' of information on what's in the area, what my friends are doing, and what's coming up are all hidden behind tabs. Please change that back.

I love upcoming and use it regularly. I hope that the team can address these issues so that it remains my top event discovery site.

I can't believe it. You cannot change the home page out of the blue, without an explanation

But, most of all, why???? it was perfect, it was exactly what I needed! I want that page back!

It's incredible how many mistakes Yahoo is doing. Flickr is stuck with the same interface since years and they add videos - no one needing those. Delicious is standing still since 2006, with the worst speed performance I ever saw from a web site. Upcoming was the only thing still working and what you do? You change it!

Unbelievable. Just to let you know: All this service, and Yahoo, has been named as "champions" in my 2006 italian book about Web 2.0. In the next edition they will matter for a chapter titled "How to kill good innovations"

Best regards,
Alberto D'Ottavi
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http://www.infoservi.it

Very nice !

fine