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Arantor

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Re: The calendar
« Reply #30, on October 10th, 2011, 01:31 PM »
OK, I wrote the extra piece of functionality I alluded to in the previous post, now there's no reason why I have to (or not have to) do this :)
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Re: The calendar
« Reply #32, on October 10th, 2011, 02:21 PM »
Quote from spoogs on October 10th, 2011, 01:45 PM
Quote from Arantor on October 10th, 2011, 10:47 AM
* Make birthdays its own plugin.
That^
And following your further explanation, have a +1 from me also; both (all three?) items as plugins. I still think it could hook the calendar if enabled, but all as plugins is where it's at.
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Re: The calendar
« Reply #33, on October 10th, 2011, 02:27 PM »
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both (all three?) items as plugins
There's only two plugins being discussed: birthdays and calendar. And yes, birthdays could hook into the calendar; this is precisely what I added to the plugin manager this morning: the ability to define a hook that isn't currently available but won't make it die. So the birthday support has some core requirements (hooking into admin, info centre, etc) and additionally the optional requirement of calendar, so if the calendar is present, use that too.

Since I was going to make the calendar a plugin anyway, it follows that birthdays need changing because right now birthdays are part of (though not really dependent on) the calendar.

Just curious to hear a few more voices on the subject before I do anything.

(Also note: any plugins I build out of the original core, they'll go into my standard repo along with the other plugins I have, which means anyone who has SVN access currently will also have access to those.)

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Re: The calendar
« Reply #36, on May 1st, 2012, 03:43 AM »
There are reasons SMF has a limit on how far you can create events and thus how far you can go into the past and future ;)

Personally, I'd just flag the entire calendar as noindex,nofollow and be done with it since doing a robots.txt file is... interesting and unreliable when not using pretty URLs.

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Re: The calendar
« Reply #39, on October 27th, 2012, 07:00 PM »
Quote from Arantor on October 10th, 2011, 11:11 AM
Thing is, I'd personally rather have birthdays as a plugin on its own rather than being tied explicitly to the calendar; I don't want it on every forum that I run, but where I do, I want it without the calendar - though that is just me.
tend to agree. I would think that very few forums require a birthdays option, whereas a large number will use the standard calendar feature.

For me, the calendar is one of the key components. Run a cycling forum and a large proportion of our threads are for races that go on during the year, so one of our lead portal blocks is a list of upcoming races so users can quickly get to that particular race thread. Think we create several hundred calendar events a year, but by the same token we only use the very basic functionality of it. No private events, or group events etc.

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Re: The calendar
« Reply #40, on October 27th, 2012, 07:36 PM »
Actually I disagree with you, it's actually more likely to be the other way around based on the time I spent doing SMF support.

The calendar is a plugin, it currently does not work properly.

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Re: The calendar
« Reply #41, on October 27th, 2012, 08:20 PM »
Quote from Arantor on October 27th, 2012, 07:36 PM
Actually I disagree with you, it's actually more likely to be the other way around based on the time I spent doing SMF support.

The calendar is a plugin, it currently does not work properly.
saw it was a plugin definately the right move. Surprised that many people care about birthdays, I feel overrun with birthday notifications. Everytime i look at my phone either facebook, google or something else is reminding me of birthdays, failing that its the wife reminding me, or the month texting me to send the grandparents card :S of course that is totally useless as a development comment.
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