FAQ

Open the event and press RSVP. You need an account, which takes one email address and no password — we send you a sign-in link.

You will see the button only where the free places are ours to give. An event whose tickets are sold on the organiser's own page shows that link instead, and one that is entirely paid sends you to the seller. A single event can be both: a free tier you can RSVP for, beside a paid tier you buy elsewhere.

It is your place on the guest list, and door staff scan it to check you in. Keep the email, or open the event page on your phone when you arrive.

You will not get one for an online event, because there is no door to scan it at. For those, the event page carries the join link.

If you were invited by a host rather than registering yourself, your code is issued the moment you confirm on the event page — the invitation email deliberately carries no code, because email gets forwarded and a QR does not know who is holding it.

Join the waitlist. The button says so once the last place is taken, and it shows your position in the queue.

If somebody cancels, the first person waiting takes the place automatically and gets an email with their QR code. Nothing is needed from you in the meantime, and you do not have to keep refreshing the page.

Open the event and press cancel on the RSVP box. Please do — the place goes straight to the first person on the waitlist, and an empty seat at a full event helps nobody.

Cancelling revokes your QR code. Registering again later issues a new one.

The number of people going is public. The names are shown only to signed-in members, and never an email address. People added at the door by staff are counted but never named.

Your registration also goes to the organiser of that event, because they are the people running the door. It goes to nobody else.

A page listing the events you have attended exists, and it is off unless you turn it on. When you do, it is reachable at a random address that has nothing to do with your name or email, and it lists only events you were actually checked in at.

Yes, three ways.

• One event. The RSVP box has calendar links for Google, Apple and Outlook.
• Everything on the site. Press Subscribe on the events page. A subscription is not a copy: an event that is moved or called off corrects itself in your calendar without anybody emailing you.
• One organisation. Their page has the same subscribe link for their own events only.

If you were at it, yes. The gallery opens when the event starts and closes thirty days after it finishes, and photos come from the people who were there — checked in at the door, or on the guest list, in which case the organiser sees them first.

Ten photos each. You can delete your own at any time, and so can the organiser. Deleting really deletes: the file is removed, not hidden.

Your phone tags photographs with the place they were taken. We strip that when you upload, so posting a picture from an evening at somebody's house does not publish the address.

Everybody holding a place is emailed when an organiser cancels, postpones, moves or reschedules an event, and the notice says what changed rather than telling you to go and look.

The listing shows it too, so a cancelled event is never sitting there looking like it is going ahead.

Use Submit an Event. You need an account, and the form walks through the details, the organisation, the hosts, tickets, sponsors, partners and questions. Only the first step is required — everything after it can be left empty.

Submissions arrive as drafts and a person reads each one before it is published. You get an email when it goes live, and another if we cannot publish it.

1920 × 1080, or anything else at that shape. Every box that shows it is 16:9, so a banner at that ratio fills them with nothing cropped and no bars around it.

Something smaller still publishes; it just looks soft on a large screen. Something much larger is resized in your browser before it uploads, so you are not sending a 12-megapixel photograph over venue wifi.

In the Online join link field on the first step — Zoom, Meet, Teams, Discord, whatever you are using. It appears on the event page as a Join button and is sent with the reminder email, which is the message people actually open minutes before you start.

Set the country to "Online / Global" as well. That is what tells the page, the search engines and the reminder that there is no room to travel to.

Yes, from My Events. Everyone holding a place is emailed about a material change, and the message lists what it was and what it is now.

That email is the condition on which editing a live event is allowed at all. Leaving a wrong date in place because it is already published helps nobody.

Judged per tier, not per event. A free tier is ours: people RSVP here, we hold the list and issue the codes. A paid tier is yours: you give us the link and we send buyers to it.

An event with both shows both, each with its own route in. Nobody is told a price for a place that is free, and nobody is offered an RSVP for a place that is sold.

Open the scan page from your event, point the camera at a guest's code, and it says whether they are on the list — including whether they have already been scanned in.

Somebody who turns up without registering can be added on the spot as a walk-in, so the head count stays right. Anyone whose phone is dead can be found by name in the same list.

The scanner works with no signal. The guest list is stored on the device the first time it loads.

Yes. An organisation can have managers, who can do everything with its events, and door staff, who can only check people in. Both sign in with their own accounts.

Named hosts are separate again: they are the people on stage, credited on the page with their own profile of everything they have fronted.

Everything is reviewed by a person before it goes up, so there is a wait. If yours has been sitting for a few days, write to [email protected] with the title.

Drafts that go unanswered for a long time get a reminder rather than being quietly dropped.

No. Enter your email address and we send a link that signs you in. There is no password to forget, and none stored here to be stolen.

The same account covers RSVPs, comments, submitting events and following organisers.

From Gravatar, matched to the email you signed in with. Set one there and it appears here. Without one you get your initials.

You get an email when they announce something new. It is a digest rather than an alert for every event, and every one of those emails can turn it off.

Write to [email protected] from the address you signed up with. What we hold and how long we hold it is set out in the privacy policy.

Attendance at an event you were checked in at is kept as a record for the organiser's own reporting, which the privacy policy explains and puts a limit on.

A small newsroom covering technology, business and the events around them in the Philippines and the wider region. Our editorial policy sets out how we decide what to publish, and our corrections page what happens when we get it wrong.

Tell us at [email protected] with a link. Errors of fact are corrected with a dated note, not edited away quietly — the corrections page is the whole procedure.

Yes — the advertise page has the formats and a way to book fifteen minutes. Sponsorship of an event is arranged with that event's organiser, not with us.

Yes. The RSS address is in the footer, the podcast has its own feed, and the events have a calendar subscription. All three are open and need no account.