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past Events showing not working right for me on home page widget

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Really?! You are a real champ Paul! Yaaaaaayyyy!
Yeah I think the module was set up with 1 night concerts in mind, not week-long festivals.
This is actually a big improvement for my site, even though it may not seem like anything important.
Thank you!!

past Events showing not working right for me on home page widget

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Thanks, I will do the same on my other site then.

I do have another question about this 'showing' function in the Events module. I may have brought this up a few years ago, but am hoping it can be adjusted fairly easily-
In my attached image, our choices for keeping Events visible for "x" amount of time after their START date are not very practical or useable in my typical site situations...
I get choices of 30 min, 45 min, 1, 2, 3 hours, 1 day, up to at most 5 days after START date of an event.
On my dulcimer musician site, most of our Events are music festivals or music camps- many of which are big events with hundreds of people attending workshops and or camping for a weekend and often a whole week. Lots of our members hold discussions in the event about accommodations, what classes to take, sharing rides, who's going, what to bring, etc etc. They also like to follow up after the event for a few days about what a good time they had. As it is now, if a festival lasts a week, it will simply DISAPPEAR 5 days into it, taking all its discussions with it... which is not good at all on my site.
My choice then comes down to having ALL events past and present showing for all time (always a disaster for my sites), OR having many of the longer events mysteriously disappear before they are even over.

Frankly, I don't need all those gazillion choices there now for 3 hrs, 4 hrs, 5 hrs,... What I really would find useful is a choice to show the event for x days after its END date... but I seem to recall this was asked for by me and another person a while back and it was not easily do-able.
Sooooo.... maybe instead I can get a LONGER span that would be sure to enable a week long festival to keeping showing on the home page events widget for up to 5 days after it ends- which in the case of a week festival, would be 12 days.
I would love to be able to have much more useful choices of something like the following instead of what's there now:
Show past events for ____ time after start date... with the choices being:
1 hour
3 hrs
8 hrs
12 hrs
1 day
2 days
4 days
6 days
9 days
12 days
15 days.
That would be something i could really use!

Is there a quick template location where I can edit these time choices myself, or does it need doing by a universal module change? Or is it too much trouble? I realize not everyone needs the same thing, but this seems to me kinda logical since so many events are longer than a day and get talked about for a few days after they are over as well.
Thanks for taking the time to consider this.

past Events showing not working right for me on home page widget

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Thanks Paul, working now.
Tell me- I see your edits, but not sure which is your NEWER edited version when I 'compare' them ?:
mdFOTMD_June15_2020/index.tpl (custom) (where some code is removed near lines 518 and 520) or
mdFOTMD_June15_2020/index.tpl (1.0.11) (where there is additional lines of code there)

I ask this so i can go apply the same tweak to my other JR site.
I'm thinking the (custom) version in the Compare view is the newer version you just tweaked, but want to be sure.
That template in my skin seems to be the only place where you changed something, correct?
updated by @strumelia: 04/12/21 07:40:41AM

past Events showing not working right for me on home page widget

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This used to work properly, but no longer does...
I have my Events module set to show past events up to 5 days after their start date.
Right now in my events page https://fotmd.com/event , I have the Hindman event at top showing properly (it's start date was April 8 and today is the 11)
However, on my site's Home page in the Events widget (called Coming Events), that Hindman event disappeared right on April 8, and it should not have disappeared for another 5 days.
I don't see any JrEvent... modified templates in my custom active skin, but not sure where else to look.

I have another question on how to modify these showing choices, but first I need to fix this little glitch. Thanks
So, not sure why that has stopped working.
updated by @strumelia: 07/13/21 02:18:55AM

Cannot add recent Soundcloud clips, old SC clips can be reloaded fine

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Paul it seems to be working correctly now on my FOTMD site.
Thank you so much! I have several grateful members who are quite active on my site who use SC to participate in various ways. :D

Cannot add recent Soundcloud clips, old SC clips can be reloaded fine

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I just had another FOTMD.com (regular) member write me who is having the same problem on my site.

The same issue happens on my other JR site (pennywhistleclub) as well.

Cannot add recent Soundcloud clips, old SC clips can be reloaded fine

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Hi, I have two moderators who have been unable to add recent soundcloud clips to my site (FOTMD.com). It seems they have no trouble adding any older SC clips, but clips that have been created over the past two or three weeks are giving a jamroom error of: "Unable to extract ID from URL, or an invalid SoundCloud ID". This holds true even if we test by trying to upload each others' SC clips, so it's not a problem with our computers.

For example, if you go to my moderator Dusty's SC page:
https://soundcloud.com/dusty-turtle
and try to add his 6 month old SC clip "One Wife is Enough For Me"... it will load fine. But trying the same with his two most recent clips (both created less than 2 weeks ago), and you will get the JR error message.

My site is up to date and the integrity check of all SC clips has been run, and System Check is all green light and my SC API that has always worked is still in place.

I don't have SC clips that I can run tests with, but Dusty graciously told me i could test all I like with his SC clips... and I get the same results that he is getting- his SC clips created over the past two or three weeks will give the error message and won't be added to my site.

The same is true of my moderator Robin Thompson:
https://soundcloud.com/robin-thompson-5
Her "Road to Beech Grove" from a month ago and all earlier clips load fine on my site, but her 3 more recent clips give the JR error message.

This would be a significant loss, as many of my active members use SC to add music to my FOTMD.com site.

BTW, while testing, I realized that a member cannot load a SC clip twice- JR will d=correctly identify it as a duplicate and prevent it... however if Dusty loads his SC clip, I can also load the same clip- JR will see the two as not duplicates simply because two different members added the same clip. No problem with that, it just helps to know it while testing this.
Hopefully this is a fixable issue and not one that signifies the Death of SoundCloud for my site!
updated by @strumelia: 07/06/21 02:34:06AM

Adding non-binary to gender choice in user signup

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I do like to have gender as one of the signup questions on my site- it helps me when moderating, or in protecting vulnerable members, and sometimes helps me detect spammers (who so often identify themselves as female and from a large city when applying for membership).
Lately I've had a few folks join who may not feel as welcome if presented with only male/female options when joining my site, so I added a third option of "non-binary".

To do this, go to your site's signup page: yoursite.com/user/signup
Then click the Form Designer button.
If you already have Gender as one of your signup questions, add the non-binary to the bottom here:
m|Male
f|Female
n|Non-binary

You could add other different choices for your members as well, as well as "I prefer not to say".

I have the field type set to Radio button. (like a round checkbox)
In the "sub-label" textbox near the top, I also added the following:
(will not be publicly visible on your profile)
That sub-label is important as it reassures new members that their gender will not be visible to the other members or the browsing public.
updated by @strumelia: 05/18/21 06:30:31PM

Sound Cloud?

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Just curious since I don't keep up on these things- any idea of what people will be using on a music site instead of Soundcloud, in the future? (not wanting to have my members always uploading all their audio files directly to my site either)
Like the audio clip version of Vimeo or Youtube...

Chat error for some members

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I applied the new version with the bug fix, and both members having the problem have now repported it fixed.
Thanks so much! Marking this solved.