Clearer event forms: time zones spelled out, no double RSVPs, and confirmations for advocates

Improvement

Week of September 20, 2026

Three fixes that make Community Events harder to get wrong.

Event forms say which time zone they’re in — public event forms show “All times on this form are in your time zone”, with the zone named. A meeting planned inside a conversation is set in the advocate’s time zone — they’re the host — so that form names it (“Times are in Phil’s time zone: America/Chicago (CDT)”), which matters when an admin in another zone schedules on an advocate’s behalf.
One place to register — when a public event has an External link (Eventbrite, Meetup, Facebook, or your own site), its page now sends people there and no longer shows the built-in RSVP form, so nobody “RSVPs” with you and then turns up without a ticket. Anyone who had already RSVP’d before you added the link still sees their RSVP and can cancel it.
Advocates see confirmations — advocates now get the same pop-up confirmations admins do (“Event scheduled”, “Event cancelled”, and the rest) across their site, including on the conversation page. Before, their actions worked but said nothing.