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The idea of Lanyrd is great, but there are some annoyances with the way the information is presented. I'm browsing it right now because we're letting all our em

The idea of Lanyrd is great, but there are some annoyances with the way the information is presented. I'm browsing it right now because we're letting all our employees choose a conference or two to attend this year. 1. Once signed in, the homepage displays "Your Calendar" and then events that are going on today. Why? It's not like I can get up from my desk right now and go to Palo Alto or London. The home page would be much more useful if I saw events grouped by my interests, region and social circle, not ascending dates starting with today. 2. Events show COUNTRY / CITY and each links to the /places/ lookup. Really need to put the state in there for US people. 3. I feel like the topics/tags are messy and are just going to get worse. There's UX, User Experience, User Experience Design, Usability, User Interaction, etc. Maybe these have subtle technical differences but it makes it a pain to use. Maybe I'm in the minority but I think un-moderated tags for a site like this are bad. General categories would be a good thing IMO. Anyway, not my intention to be overly-critical ... just some suggestions on making the site more useful (to me)

simonw 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We have a new, improved version of the dashboard coming soon that will hopefully address your points in 1) - the current version was designed when we had very few events on the site, but now that we have thousands of conferences it's important to be able to filter them. 2) is a really interesting suggestion - we've been treating every country the same, but since the US is our largest market it makes sense to make States a special case. 3) is something we've been thinking about quite a bit - again, our topics worked fine when we were smaller, but the strain is beginning to show. Metadata is hard! We'll be iterating constantly over the next few months, so keep an eye on our blog/twitter account for updates.

simonw 16y ago

Thanks for the feedback. We have a new, improved version of the dashboard coming soon that will hopefully address your points in 1) - the current version was designed when we had very few events on the site, but now that we have thousands of conferences it's important to be able to filter them. 2) is a really interesting suggestion - we've been treating every country the same, but since the US is our largest market it makes sense to make States a special case. 3) is something we've been thinking about quite a bit - again, our topics worked fine when we were smaller, but the strain is beginning to show. Metadata is hard! We'll be iterating constantly over the next few months, so keep an eye on our blog/twitter account for updates.