Hey Jason, cool to see you pop up here! Congrats on the launch, I'm happy to be able to join up as a new paid subscriber. Really glad y'all included RSS feeds for the articles and premium podcast feed; there are dozens of us who still use RSS - dozens! :P
I have a small suggestion: Would you consider adding a perk for premium subscribers to be able to suggest (not demand) story pitches/ideas, and maybe vote for them to indicate which ideas have more interest? It's kind of an extension of what you're planning to do with the FOIA requests forum, and similar to how some FOSS projects try to prioritize features that are requested or bountied by supporting donors. Also, it could be a nice way to crowdsource ideas from your pre-vetted audience, so you don't drown in spam and vote manipulation.
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!
Nice work! I tried to clone the project and run with Docker with the hope of contributing but I'm getting this error message on the "Introducing the Shell" page:
The process died.
Your code probably took too long.
Maybe you have an infinite loop?
Do you have a chatroom or something where project devs can discuss work in realtime?
I have a small suggestion: Would you consider adding a perk for premium subscribers to be able to suggest (not demand) story pitches/ideas, and maybe vote for them to indicate which ideas have more interest? It's kind of an extension of what you're planning to do with the FOIA requests forum, and similar to how some FOSS projects try to prioritize features that are requested or bountied by supporting donors. Also, it could be a nice way to crowdsource ideas from your pre-vetted audience, so you don't drown in spam and vote manipulation.