Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-sys] development of new wordpress site for omnicommons.org

Huh, it's interesting you point that out. Can you give concrete details that point out the significant differences between the two calendars? I find it surprising because I've noted over the years that in fact the current calendar is very buggy and inconsistent on desktop and mobile. I've had to manually repair several debilitating bugs with the UI. It's very heavy in the use of JavaScript, creating lots of interaction, hover, and modal issues. As for mobile, take notice of how the current calendar scrolls across an iframe window in the page on an android mobile browser, it's really restricting--and you can't read the full names of events. The style differences of the new calendar are still in development as the theme is still under development. However, at the very least, it's all very basic HTML so it actually loads a lot more clearly on mobile browsers (before we've made any changes at all) than the current calendar which obfuscates a lot more information. I agree it's not right on yet, adding some padding/margins/font-size-changes will make a significant difference. Further, my view has been that the end calendar output is the last part that needs to be polished up since it's all the back end mechanisms and their reliability that have taken the majority of my attention in this effort so far. I'm happy to report after much searching, this plugin reliably replaces all the integral calendar features of our old calendar plugin except the form submission aspect (which did have to be customized by yar for the current calendar plugin as well)--which is why I wrote my original email. If you don't have any desire to participate in that, no problem. It's a niche and specific task. Finally, I believe that if we have a good looking blog that is integrated with our calendar and the rest of our site, I think we will have more compelling reasons for our existing active users and new users to write blog posts that will get read. I hope to get to that point very soon. I think the end is in sight, and not being able to replace the calendar prevents us from advancing to replace the whole omnicommons.org site. Sure, we could stay with the old calendar if necessary, or even just in the short-term. I never said that was off the table. On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote: