I’ve been working on my privacy setup and breaking away from Proton. There are a bunch of email providers I looked at, same with email aliases, password managers, etc.
But I don’t understand the state of calendars. It feels like they’re always shoved into email services, and they’re all so crappy looking.
I was able to find one or two Android apps that are open source, and they look like they’re 20 years old.
Proton Calendar, for all its faults, looks really good.
Why, in 2025, is there no simple calendar as a service with nothing else included? And why do the UIs all look like complete trash?
I don’t get it. Can’t one of us hire an intern to take a week to learn a CSS framework and create a decent calendar UI? Am I missing something?
Outlook’s been built like that for a long time, and I assume that maybe groupware predating it might have done that.
kagis
https://lemmy.ml/post/8476593
@fubo@lemmy.world’s take sounds pretty plausible.
Email has been widely-deployed and available for a long time and it provides an asynch messaging mechanism, which calendering needs if you’re using in a company to schedule events and do invites.
You could have some kind of separate piece of software that’s just authorized to access your mail and uses it for communication, but then it doesn’t have the ability to grab messages from the calendaring system before you might see them.
I’d guess that if someone is just using an individual calendar, they may not need a way to do invites the way one does at a company. Probably do need some kind of mechanism to do notification, though.