Facebook Events Are Awful – By Design
* FB events do not let you filter out online events, so your search results will be full of online events that you have no interest in going to if you're looking for something in-person.
* There is no way to simply browse all upcoming events situated in your local area. Instead, you must add a search term to run the search. What if you just want to see what's going on in town?
* You are unable to set time-based search criteria. E.g. "I would like to look for an event in my area that starts at 7pm and ends before 11pm."
* Results from nearby cities are often included in the search results, polluting the query to the point where it is simply useless.
* The UI is banal and ugly. By comparison, Airbnb's Events UI is thoughtful and user-friendly.
...and yet, FB events are often the only game in town.
When it comes to UI, FB know what they are doing. These are not mistakes. There is absolutely no damn way that they have messed this up so bad.
So the question becomes - why are FB sabotaging their own Events page? The only thing that comes to mind is that maybe FB hates in-person Events because if people are going to in-person Events, then they are not using FB during that time, i.e. lost revenue dollars.
What are your thoughts?