Ah, something we forgot to explain
I’ll talk to Neti about this tonight and make sure there’s a little guide posted shortly after. AFAIK we will have to use comments for now

During the beta test we have tried out several event calendar systems but none of them did what we were looking for. In the end we decided to go with the current one, which was by far the easiest to use. Unfortunately this system doesn’t have a signup system, but after some trials in the 2nd half of the beta test we felt this is a non-blocking issue. The list of sign-ups in the old system was nice for the event organiser, but in practice they had to read and take into all comments anyway.

So people can now just sign up by posting a comment at the event description, possibly adding any special remarks.

• This reply was modified 36 days ago by  Neti.

I don’t know if we have officer edit permissions like before? Or maybe the creator can add people to the edit permission list?But what Neti says is true, the previous sign up system was cool, but the event organizer had to check through the comments for any special remarks anyway, so it’s not a big difference.

I think we can have an unofficial rule though, that people use “DPS”, “HEALER”, “TANK” as the first word in their comments to make things easier for the organizer. Maybe with a character name on the side, it still gives me trouble some times on people with many alts, figuring which one they will bring xD

Example of a raid sign up comment: “DPS-Nienor , might be a few mins late guys” or ” TANK-Neldoreth (Nienor) please sign me up as backup ”

Dunno, seems to me like it would make things nice and organized ( and easier for me, when I start making events again next week >:D )

• This reply was modified 36 days ago by  Nienor.

A sign-up system like the one we had was nice and clean and all, but ultimately it was quite rigid, so people would have to make further comment on the thread in question anyway, from time to time (e.g. “my sign up is just as reserve” or comments along those lines).

I think commenting on the event thread should work perfectly well. The only difficulties that I can see arising from leaving it as is are as follows:-

(1) It will not be immediately apparent to a guild member exactly how many sign-ups have occurred for any given event and what that raid may need to go ahead. That sounds like a negative, but it perhaps isn’t.

(2) With no official sign-up page, you wont get those reminders on the website regarding the events you have signed up to attend. To be frank, I never really took notice of that part of the website though. My focus was generally on the front-page “invite list” for any given raid.

In summary, don’t go breaking a sweat trying to find a solution for this, because I think it will work fine as is, with perhaps just a modest amount of more work required by those posting the invite list for any given raid (but not much really).