About & Release History

Member Management

• ✦ Event admins can view all members (name, email, joined date)
• ✦ Search members by name or email
• ✦ Sort members by name, email, or join date — ascending or descending
• ✦ Filter between Active and Blocked members
• ✦ Remove a member (they can rejoin)
• ✦ Block a member (permanently prevented from rejoining)
• ✦ Unblock a previously blocked member

Private Event Invitations

• ✦ Event admins can invite anyone by email address from the Members page
• ✦ Branded invitation email sent with a secure 48-char token link
• ✦ Invitation links expire after 30 days and are single-use
• ✦ Invited users are auto-subscribed when they accept via link
• ✦ Non-registered invitees are prompted to sign up first, then redirected back
• ✦ Pending invitations visible on Members page with ability to revoke

Discover Page — Filters

• ✦ Category filter pills (Politics, Music, Science & Space, Celebrations, etc.)
• ✦ Filter counts update live based on actual event data
• ✦ Filters compose with search and sorting

Discover Page — Search

• ✦ Full-text search across event titles and descriptions
• ✦ Works alongside category filters
• ✦ Result count shown when search or filter is active
• ✦ Clear filter / clear search controls

Discover Page — Sorting

• ✦ Sort by Date ascending/descending or Name A→Z / Z→A
• ✦ Default: soonest upcoming events first, open-ended at the bottom
• ✦ Sort persists across pagination

Branding & UI

• ✦ New calendar-style logo mark (gold header, ring coils, no text)
• ✦ Light and dark theme logo variants
• ✦ New favicon (calendar icon) across all sizes: 16, 32, 48, 180px, ICO
• ✦ Apple touch icon (dark theme) for iOS home screen
• ✦ Logo mark used in nav and all auth pages

Dashboard Fix

• ✦ "My Events" now excludes system-imported events
• ✦ Dedicated importer system user owns all API-sourced events

External Event Imports

• ✦ Calendarific: US public holidays (current + next year)
• ✦ NASA NeoWs: upcoming asteroid close approaches within 0.05 AU
• ✦ USNO: solar eclipses for the next 3 years (no API key required)
• ✦ Wikidata: upcoming elections and inaugurations via SPARQL (no key required)
• ✦ MusicBrainz: upcoming official album releases for the next 12 months
• ✦ AstronomyAPI integration (celestial events — pending response format confirmation)

Import Infrastructure

• ✦ Artisan command: php artisan events:import [source|all]
• ✦ Scheduled imports: daily (NASA), weekly (Calendarific, Wikidata, MusicBrainz), monthly (USNO, AstronomyAPI)
• ✦ Idempotent upsert — re-running never creates duplicates
• ✦ external_source, external_id, source_url columns on events table
• ✦ New event types: Holiday, Astronomical

Events

• ✦ Create, edit, and delete public or private events
• ✦ Event types: Election, Inauguration, Birth, Death, Wedding, Divorce, Imprisonment, Release, Celebration, Retirement, Anniversary, Trial, Album Release, Concert
• ✦ Time-based events (countdown) and open-ended events (awaiting arrival)
• ✦ Live countdown display: days, hours, minutes, seconds
• ✦ Arrived state: manual trigger by event admin
• ✦ URL slug auto-generated from event title

Subscriptions

• ✦ Subscribe / unsubscribe to any public event
• ✦ Private event access via invitation token
• ✦ Subscriber count displayed on each event card

Browse / Discover

• ✦ Public event browse page with paginated grid
• ✦ Event cards with countdown, type badge, creator info

Dashboard

• ✦ My Events, Subscribed Events, and Discover sections

Foundation

• ✦ Laravel 13 on PHP 8.4 (Hostinger shared hosting, CloudLinux)
• ✦ MySQL database with full schema: users, events, subscriptions, invitations, referrals, notifications
• ✦ Invite-only beta registration mode
• ✦ Email verification flow
• ✦ Admin approval before account activation

Authentication

• ✦ Register, login, logout
• ✦ Forgot password / reset password
• ✦ Email verification with resend
• ✦ Pending approval state

Admin Panel

• ✦ User management: approve, reject, suspend, unsuspend
• ✦ Beta invite management: create and revoke invite tokens
• ✦ Admin dashboard overview

Design System

• ✦ Dark/light theme toggle (persisted in localStorage)
• ✦ Cormorant Garamond display font, Jost body font, DM Mono monospace
• ✦ Gold (#C9A84C) accent color throughout
• ✦ Chronos Noir aesthetic: dark luxury with gold accents