Just a thought here...
I can understand why a music band's site would not need past events to show- the concert is over, everyone went home...on to the next gig to list as coming event.
However, in a social network kind of setting, I would find it rather odd and abrupt for an event to simply disappear off the face of the earth after midnight of the date it happens. Members would be like "huh?, who turned out the lights?" Even Ken characterizes it as the past events going 'missing'... as I would tend to see it as well.
Imagine an event like a hiking trip or a weekend music workshops camp- and a bunch of your members are attending. In the days or weeks leading up to the event, they'd be posting "Hey anyone coming from Albany wanna ride share?" "What should I pack for that hike?" "Is that a beginner level workshop?"
BUT- in at least the several days AFTER the event in that case, people would be wanting to discuss the event a bit and touch base, like "Did you get back home safe during that snowstorm", "What would you have changed about the workshop schedule?" or "On the way home, some of us new friends had a great meal at the pizza place on Rte 7 after the hike on sunday, and so-and-so brought their fiddle and..."
To me it makes sense to not automatically have events immediately disappear, and it'd be great to have a simple check box option for that rather than having to add code in multiple templates to achieve it- as though it was something unique or unusual to want to customize. Kind of like how there is a check box in the blogs module for "show blogs module" or not show it.
And of course if we have such an option for events, I assume it'd still remain a relatively simple to manually delete old past events. Just my take on it, thanks.
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updated by @strumelia: 12/09/14 08:37:19AM
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