This is new behaviour on my instance, and I am guessing due to the update released since last fall, because in Sept 2024 I could list two events on a Sunday, for Sept 1 and 29, but now in 2025, I was not permitted to enter March 23 or April 27. No matter how I tried to sneak those numbers into the date widget, it would be ‹ corrected › to the day before.
When it happened listing that March date, I didn’t look into it, it wasn’t an important event and could be promoted elsewhere. Then for the April event it happened again, and I tested it more, entering date by the calendar widget or typing directly or using arrow keys to increment or decrement, they all refused to accept any Sunday, but would take any other day.
I searched for some setting that restricted days of the week, although I really can’t imagine anyone wanting such a feature, and I couldn’t find any such setting, but I’m also pretty new to Mobilizon.
There was a discussion on the matrix channel about this, though hadnt realised it was « sunday » based. The person trying it ended up choosing the date of the following day - which was auto-corrected to the day they wanted, does that work for you?
No that just sets the date to be that date. What really perplexes me is how this restriction could occur! What would be the point of a calendar widget disallowing specific days?
Is there some place to globally set the day that the week starts? I wonder if in upgrading that was given an invalid number or something like that. I would rather work with weeks beginning on Monday anyway, if that is possible.
Oh a new discovery: on the My Events page, to set the startdate for showing events, I click on the day for March 26 and then both the up and down arrow keys decrement the day number, and not sequentially, it jumps, sometimes many days. From 26 I get 25 and then 22!
Update: yes, If I use the calendar pop-up, select the Monday after, popup closes and it is now showing the 27th! I’ll fill out the event and see if it sticks. Wish me luck!
Happy to report it worked, only the cellphone photo I used to lead was turned sideways in the ActivityPub release; I’ve since replaced it with a landscape but it seems updates don’t propagate very well.
Does anyone else find that while it has such vile warts, Mobilizon is nonetheless too useful?
Hello,
Thanks for sharing!
I tried and could select any date - including 27th of april. I also haven’t managed to reproduce what you described regarding « my events ». To my knowledge the widget was from « Oruga » at some point, but it has been removed and now date and time are using html default feature (ie: it’s driven by your browser).
I’d be interested to know if others experience the same as you, and also know which version of mobilizon and which browser you’re using.
I’m glad you like Mobilizon whatsoever!
Good to know this situation is rare. I am using Firefox 136.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 24.04, and running Mobilizon 5.1.0 (2025) on an RPI5 under Debian 12.
Well, there goes my hypothesis. I had been hoping that you’d be somewhere near the international date line, in NZ or AU or somewhere, but alas.
Anyway, my biggest concerns right now are with stability and performance. I’ve been doing odds and ends with query optimisation, and I’m planning to do a lot more, but in order to build credibility I did some work on the CI/CD pipeline, and I’m waiting for those merges to be accepted.
But yeah, this tool is a real gem, and could be one of the most important pieces of the Fediverse. That’s why I’m willing to put so much energy into it.
I agree. I find it has three features that set it apart:
supports a ‹ backstage › where groups can discuss among themselves, trade files etc, and then a distinct public face for the team or event (in my case for musical acts) to connect with participants. Allowing fediverse handles to ‹ participate › like a Follow for an event would be nice to have.
good support for listing recurring events and posting related updates (needs some hashtag support for Fediverse) - even WP misses this, to be able to remind folks as you get closer to the date.
maybe most important, it can federate with others of its kind, even the backstage, which I hope means a member of site A could be a added to a group on site B and still be included in the backstage action.
I think it can do all of this today, but each step is super precarious and the formats of toots as seen by Fediverse apps are a gamble, but it DOES it, and that’s what holds my interest
