Editing by message

If you posted an event by SMS, WhatsApp, or email, you can keep using that channel to make changes. No need to remember a password or open the dashboard.

How it works

Reply on the same channel you used to post. Tell us in plain language what you want changed:

• “Push the start time to 9pm”
• “Moved to the back room at Lyrical Lemonade”
• “Description: bring an instrument if you’ve got one”

We feed your message through Claude, figure out which of your published events you’re talking about, and extract the specific fields you want changed (title, time, venue, description). If we’re confident enough, we apply the change and reply with “Got it — applied your update.”

If we can’t tell which event you mean (or the confidence is low), we’ll fall back to treating it as a new event submission instead. Easier to confirm a new event than to edit the wrong one by accident.

Confirming a draft

Different flow from editing. When you first post by message, the event lands as a draft and we reply with a confirmation card. Reply with:

• yes / y / yep / yeah / ok / okay / confirm / publish / go — publishes the draft.
• no / n / nope / cancel / discard / stop — throws the draft away.

Anything else is treated as an edit attempt on the draft.

What triggers an RSVP notification

If your edit changes the time or the venue, everyone with a “Going” RSVP gets an email about it. Other changes (description, title, cover) update silently — we don’t want to spam attendees about every typo fix.

Note

This works for events you posted yourself. To edit an event you didn’t originally post, you need to claim it first.

What you can’t do by message yet

• Cancel an event by message. Do that from the dashboard.
• Change visibility (public ↔ private). Same — dashboard only.
• Generate a new cover image. Same.

The dashboard’s the catch-all for things message-based editing doesn’t cover.