takkaria/echo

News aggregator and event listing web portal

Hi there 👋

Most of my work isn't on GitHub - but I work on an open source project as part of my paid work over on GitLab, Macquette.

echo's Issues

Add Event->description_as_html() function

And use it! Factor refactor factor

Disable event email verification

There's no need - we don't get the volume of events necessary for this system to make sense and if we do it might need to be designed differently.

Remove venue system

Remove venue table & associated stuff

Allow different rejection reasons

e.g.

• Duplicate event
• Doesn’t fit our ethos

Keep rejected events in the database

• Remove the ability to purge old events
• Set status to 'rejected', don't display on unapproved screen

Stop our emails being classified as spam

Implement the suggestions here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126

Also look over http://superuser.com/questions/351817/why-does-gmail-think-mail-my-server-sends-is-a-spam

add import info to events

maybe separate table for sources, maybe not? thinking name + url pair, so that events can be attributed to their source.

Write iCal fetcher/parser

Pretty straightforward.

For each item in a feed, add it to the db with state = "automatic". Then have the 'unapproved' page mark these with a different colour or whatever.

Main & event add pages don't work great on mobile

Both of these look gross:

Add rel=noreferer to outgoing link

This would be good for privacy even though only WebKit browsers support it.

Add to Google Calendar link doesn't actually work

Add google calendar link to top of the calendar view

Make event add form validate on any form activity

At the moment, if the text field is pre-filled then the word count does not update. This needs fixing.

Add 'hosted/organised by' field to events

Write code to automatically post to Twitter

Rewrite feed parser cleanly using Node.js

Use slugs for event pages instead of flat IDs

e.g. instead of https://echomanchester.net/event/355 try using https://echomanchester.net/event/2014/08/manchester-autonomous-drinkers

Store this as 'slug TEXT' in the event table. in the "/event/[@id]" handler, also check against slug

When creating an event, ensure that the slug isn't already being used.

Calendar view event box disappears off bottom of screen

To fix:
Edit eventbox.js, add something like:

        /* Don't overflow the page */
        if (e.pageX + info.outerHeight() > $("#calendar").height())
            info.css('top', $("#calendar").height() - info.outerHeight() - 10);
        else
            info.css('top', e.pageY + "px");

http:// is required in the url field which might fox less savvy users

Add signed-in user's email address as default email address on event add form

Use whatever security techniques are available

Check out http://ibuildings.nl/blog/2013/03/4-http-security-headers-you-should-always-be-using

Automatically strip crap out of pasted URLs

e.g. on Facebook URLs, remove everything after the slash, because it's just tracking data.

Upgrade to FullCalendar 2

add ical grabber

e.g. this page has a .ics link: http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/history/events-and-seminars/eventdetails/?eid=even:fd0-i1kwj33s-p2a7wk

it should be easy to send this over to echo for data extraction

Write Facebook scraper

Facebook events have itemprop attributes for location, description, time &c. These would be really easy to scrape.

Upgrade to jQuery 2

Extractor bookmarklet: doesn't take note of time

Set up automatic UI testing

Use PhantomJS and CasperJS: http://casperjs.org/

Fix edit page - seems to always 500 at the moment

Add 'Reject' button (instead of 'unapprove')

The reject button would send an automatic email from the Echo address, after allowing the user to edit it.

Calendar display for events pages

Fix AJAX approve/unapprove feature

Add short version newsletter page

with just titles, for email mailout

Include link in admin email directly to event page

In case someone gets to it first and you want to edit it without trawling through the calendar view.

"Can't set headers after they are sent" error

Keep on getting echojs falling over due to this error:

00:49:20 web.2 |  http.js:690
00:49:20 web.2 |  throw new Error('Can\'t set headers after they are sent.'…
00:49:20 web.2 |  ^
00:49:29 web.2 |  Error: Can't set headers after they are sent.
00:49:29 web.2 |  at ServerResponse.OutgoingMessage.setHeader (http.js:690:…
00:49:29 web.2 |  at ServerResponse.header (/var/www/echomanchester.net/ech…
00:49:29 web.2 |  at ServerResponse.send (/var/www/echomanchester.net/echoj…
00:49:29 web.2 |  at fn (/var/www/echomanchester.net/echojs/node_modules/ex…
00:49:29 web.2 |  at /var/www/echomanchester.net/echojs/node_modules/swig/l…
00:49:29 web.2 |  at /var/www/echomanchester.net/echojs/node_modules/swig/l…
00:49:29 web.2 |  at fs.js:272:14
00:49:29 web.2 |  at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:108:15)

Some digging suggests there may be times when we call response.end() twice. This might be a pain to track down. Some info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26307920/res-json-cant-set-headers-after-they-are-sent

Timepicker is useless

It recognises some date formats but not a lot of them. Generally, '1' to '7' should be recognised as pm dates; at present it think it's am. Disable for now.

Get the extractor bookmarklet working on Firefox

Word count is red > 100 words even when it should be accepted

Rejected emails shouldn't be deleted straight away

Detected events changes

• Clicking on 'mark as not event' is not ajaxified anymore
• There should be a 'mark all as not event' button

Can't run events with end dates

"when adding an event, if i tick the finish time, select a time (and whether i manually select the date or leave it as automatic self selecting same day as beginning), when i validate it doesnt validate the event, and comes back with "You must provide a date." + opens the calendar view to select a date.

whatever date i then select still returns the same error

so basically so far i havent found any way to have an event with a finish date."

Rewrite in Node.js

It shouldn't be too hard...?

Template library: http://paularmstrong.github.io/swig/

Still need to find good framework with proper session support