Musicians/Bands: Add Upcoming Events!
If you’re a musician and you have a live event coming up you can list it in one of two places for it to appear on our ‘Attend’ page, which we hope will be a go to place for audiences to look up live music events.
If you’ve got a live stream coming up simply add it as a new event to the Gravitons calender. The submission will be held in moderation and then go live once approved. Just ensure you give a good description and relevant tags so people get a good idea of the genre/vibe.
If you’ve got a real life gig or set of tour dates coming up you can now add them to your Bandwagon profile and they will automatically be displayed on the NHAM live listings page. If you’re a band and don’t yet have a Bandwagon profile this could be a good excuse to set one up!
Huge thanks to @benpate at Bandwagon and @meljoann at Gravitons for setting these calendars up and enabling us to use them.
@mixtape @benpate ooh that’s super cool! Just added my next gig to Bandwagon 🫡💜
@mixtape @benpate
Hm, my event isn’t showing up on NHAM yet… did I miss a setting somewhere? Thought I ticked the box to share it with all partners. Or it in a moderation queue?
Sorry it wasn't showing correctly. There's no moderation queue, so it wasn't held up there. But I think there was some problem indexing it in the search engine, which I've just updated for you.
I'll dig in to make sure this doesn't happen in the future.
And, please let me know if you need anything else. I'm really interested to see the new event system work well for everyone.
@meljoann @mixtape
@benpate @mixtape oh cool! Thanks so much for looking into it 🙂 Love this feature
@NHAM There is @Mobilizon for live events on Mastodon already.
We did look in to it but it sadly appears to be in shutdown mode: https://social.chinwag.org/@mike/113896852893000524
@mixtape @benpate @meljoann ha! Looks like my images are coming though fine!
@benpate @meljoann @mixtape Does this system provide native ActivityPub Events I can follow? I tried subscribing to relay@cal.gravitons.org but was told that as a relay I can’t follow that account. Not to detract from a great initiative though – this is exactly the kind of project I want to see!
Interesting. I just tried following @relay from a Friendica account and had the same message. It is possible to follow from Mastodon. We’ll have to delve deeper as to why Friendica accounts can’t follow it.
@mixtape @benpate @meljoann Whosandawhat now?
Oh my gosh. So it does. I added my first live event this morning without knowing about this – brilliant that It Just Works!
I said that API felt like a game changer – even moreso now! What a great example of what this thing could achieve.
@benpate – are you thinking of maintaining a list of sites (that you know about!!) that use the API to display info/data/tunes/etc from Bandcamp.fm?