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Scott asks where Touring 2.0 is. Eventful’s okay but he’s right: it could be so much better. Things that suck about Eventful:
- It hassles people to sign up for Eventful accounts. People tell me it’s required, but like for Louisville, Kentucky there are 13 demands but I can only see that 3 Eventful users are demanding it.
- Regarding the above — how am I supposed to contact those other ten people if I wind up in the area? Why don’t I see their email addresses? It can’t be a spam thing — they signed up!
- The Eventful interface is cluttered as hell, I never know where the hell I’m supposed to be looking for things. Could use some serious streamlining.
If it didn’t annoy me in those ways I’d think about running my whole gig list off of them. But not if they’re going to be all stingy and into the lock-in.
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Agreed. I hate having to sign up for something I am going to use once. There is the problem that you would have people writing scripts to vote for something 1,000 times over (I did that once so that the CS dept at my school would watch Tron instead of Swordfish on movie night ;)). However, having an email confirmation option would be nice. Wouldn’t require any signing up, and would enforce unique votes, not to mention still give contact information.
Brad, thanks for the constructive criticism of Eventful. I’d like to address each issue you raise in your blog post.
1. “It hassles people to sign up for Eventful accounts.”
We invite people to get a full Eventful account, for sure, but it’s not required to join a Demand nor use most of the Eventful site. Hence, most Demands have a majority of users who’ve not registered with full accounts, and their names don’t show up among the demanders, like you pointed out for Louisville, KY, simply because they didn’t provide names to show (and we’re certainly not gonna list out their email addresses, that wouldn’t last very long!)
2. “How am I supposed to contact these other ten people if I wind up in the area?”
The way you contact people is to use the Performer Dashboard. If you’re registered on the site as a Performer, and it appears you are for the “Brad Sucks” Performer, then just go to http://eventful.com/bradsucks, and if you’re signed in, you will see some options near the top of the page that let you get to your Performer Dashboard. Inside there are tools to let you send messages to ALL the people who have demanded you in a given city, or among multiple cities, whether they’re registered or not. You can also see Google maps of where you demands (and events) are, and lots of statistical graphs on how the demands are doing.
3. “The Eventful interface is cluttered as hell”
Yeah, it’s not perfect, we know. We’re actively working on cleaning it up, and we welcome specific feedback about where you think it is most cluttered — what pages would you most prefer us to address first? What is causing you the most difficulty?
- Brian Dear
Founder, Eventful, Inc.
Conley: Exactly. Seems like you could do it exactly like a mailing list subscription. It’d be a neat add-on for a mailing list package really, just a bit of geo-tagging.
