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Meetable can now replace your Doodle polls! Meetable, my open source event listing website, now lets you propose an event with several possible dates/times. People vote on which one works for them, and the organizer can choose the best date from the votes later. Up until now, every event in Meetable needed a date before it could be created. That works fine when the date is already known, but a lot of events start out as "we should do this, when can everyone make it?" That part of the planning had to happen somewhere else, in a poll or a chat thread, and then someone would create the event on the calendar once the date was decided. In the meantime, nobody browsing the calendar would know the event was being planned at all. I was a little unsure of how best to add this since almost everything in Meetable is built around the event date. The home page sorts by it, the ics feeds need it, and even the permalink of the event is made from it. I also didn't want the calendar to end up full of…

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