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You realise I'd already thought of that? ;)

When I said about IPB, I really meant looking at *everything* it does. Their quick search has a dropdown, to be able to select forum/blogs/calendar, as well as that being in their main search, something we can't do.

The whole point of pulling the calendar topics away from main topics is very seriously about performance - adding another query to every topic view to fetch linked events is not cheap however you slice it.

Having dedicated calendar topics would solve that particular little performance hiccup.

Common sense suggests that having a 'calendar board' would be the way to go, except that I'm not convinced it would be particularly intuitive - it would require users putting the board in, setting visibility on it and so on, not to mention having to actually implement some fashion of actually diverting things between custom board types; the way MessageIndex works thus far is fine for what it does but we will need to expand upon that in future, and this would certainly pre-empt it.

The thing is, though, even doing that doesn't really solve the issue related to search, it might actually be an improvement to, instead, have the calendar search as a separate dedicated routine that's integrated from the search (the way IPB does it), which means the experience can be tailored better for the user and allow them to search things that can't be done currently.