Topic bumping and "what's on tonight"

The topic of bumping came up in another thread. And it seems to be nescessary to keep some events in "Meetups" in a place that the casual onlooker will see it.

Forgive me if this is an old topic of something already exists, but I think a prominent "Whats on Tonight" button would help a lot, and avoid unnescessary bumping. I've seen the 4 day ahead calendar. I'm not sure how this works. It seems to work for regular events. It is not exactly in a prominant location either.

A "Whats on tonight" would be the coolest thing for the spontaneous Toytown sort of person (what am I saying?). Stuck for something to do? Click on it as the evening approaches and the event organisers would get a few more people along.

Setting it up might require the organiser entering the date time and place in a form. But no discussion thread need be directly attached. You just get a list of tonights event details. Does anyone else think this is worth going for?

TT events listing - sorted chronologically - accessible via the events heading on the homepage. Newcomers to the site tend to read the homepage. The regulars, however, don't because they're already familiar with how things work deeper inside the forum.

well, its sort of in place with the Calander, but you have to list your event on the calander.
edit- Ed. Bob beat me to it.

aye!

i'm sick of stupid bumping (some of it's fine, but if it's the same events and same people doing it constantly it gets old)

no, one look through the meet-ups and events...

Thanks. That sort of seems to do the trick for creating an event. But..

There still should be a link called "Whats on Today" rather than the pedestrian "events next three months" that only appears on the Munich Home Page and not under Events and Meetups nor at the main Toytown home page.

Do people look in the Calendar? It seems a bit dusty in there? People tend to look under Events and Meetups and that is why bumping is so important.

You mean I cant accidently bump into you anymore mere?

Perdido, you can always bump into me

I think sometimes bumping is necessary because most of the people reads the forum by looking at the recent posts. Not all users are aware of all events, so if the events are kept up around more people is exposed to them.

Sure, bumping is nescessary at the moment. That is because people look in events and meetups to see what is going on. If something was annouced a week in advance, it would get completely missed.
Bumping shows the behavior of people in the forum. This behaviour is strongly influenced by the forum layout and ease of use.