Hello Hack Club team,

I posted my suggestions in #hq in the Hack Club Slack, but @thesephist asked me to also make an issue so that you guys would know what exactly I'm asking for. These are my ideas in the form of a list:

• Automated hackathon card creating. It's in the title: I want event cards to be automated. This is one of the biggest issues with the site right now, in my opinion. Because it's pretty hard to apply for a spot on the site, and it's also pretty low-tech with that Google Form, event organizers don't really use this site much. If this whole process was automated, this would be way easier to manage, both for staff and for the organizers. I'm imagining some sort of Airtable form (connected to an Airtable sheet that makes it easier to visualize all the past events) that automatically creates the event card and adds it to the site. Further, (and I don't know if this has been done already), once the event date has passed, it should automatically be moved to the "Past Events" area of the site.

• Basic HCB integration. I don't want every single event added to Hack Club Bank to show up on the site, but I do want the form to both be in the Documents tab of the Bank dashboard (or even as a little button in the corner of the dashboard, which would probably be preferable because it's easier to access) and also have an easy way to get to Bank from the Hackathons site (so that it's easy for organizers to switch between the two). This fixes many problems with the site: it gives organizers the option to actually put their hackathon up (making the website more up-to-date), it gives the hackathon free advertising, etc. It also fixes the problem of the review process: to get into HCB, you'd need to go through a rigorous review process anyway, so that part could just be skipped. That second point is a good segue to my next suggestion.

• A complete design overhaul. I know that this suggestion wasn't in my message in the Slack, but I do think this is a really good move. The announcement of such an overhaul would generate tons of traffic to the site, and it'd also just make the site look good overall. A new Bank button/hyperlink, a new overall look, etc. Further, I'd like each event card to show (when hovered over) how many registrants this event has (I don't know the plausibility of this really) and also how many people have clicked on this event from the Hackathons site. This would be awesome.

And that's it! I'm so sorry for such a long issue, but I think this would really help the website be used more and look/feel awesome. @harshith in the Slack or just DM me if you want to talk about this more!

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Alishaan Ali
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Location: Ohio
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Alishaan brought to my attention that the date is displaying incorrectly for Hack Cincinnati on hackathons.hackclub.com. I've verified the date is displaying correctly from my mac.

Here's a screenshot of what Alishaan sees:

The correct date is July 20th-21st and the event is listed as such in the admin.hackclub.com dashboard.

Currently, on yarn dev, on most modest environments the process gets shut down because we open too many network request or files at the same time, not sure which.

ENFILE There are too many distinct file openings in the entire system

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bottleneck#install seems like a good rate limiter we use elsewhere at Hack Club (orpheus)

Title says everything. The only way to reach them right now is to:

1. Go directly to the URL, or
2. Finding the page via a search engine

Maybe a page containing links to all the region pages should be added? So like hackathons.hackclub.com/regions or something?

"Hackathon by the Sea: Girls Edition" looks off due to the left-aligned centering.

I'd like to implement a mailing list where subscribers get notified of new events near them.

Something that looks like the following (obviously design needs to be improved):

To start, I think we should implement this using a Google Form - we can implement a backend for this once we've figured out the exact UX. For the time being, I've set up https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccVRnydeDLLSWslbR6tsLHWOg6zUw9XakHkoi3mFsNy0EazA/viewform.

If you POST to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccVRnydeDLLSWslbR6tsLHWOg6zUw9XakHkoi3mFsNy0EazA/formResponse with the following parameters (application/x-www-form-urlencoded):

• entry.1968413973 - email
• entry.1170418241 - location

It should work. Just note: this can't be an ajax request, needs to be an actual form POST.

@lachlanjc, @maxwofford: either of you in a position to take point on this?

During Hack Cinncinati, I opened hackathons.hackclub.com—it’d be awesome to highlight it right now with a “LIVE NOW” badge or something along those lines

Per https://github.com/hackclub/hackathons/blob/2ef0e06327b4f1d7a42eccd891a4a39dbe09bc45/src/components/EventCard.js#L93-L100 we're tracking when users click events.

It'd be helpful to also track when users click on the learn more button at the bottom of the page.

Currently, the events are displayed in ascending order. It would be more useful if they were displayed in descending order, as you wouldn't need to scroll further to find an event to sign up for.