Test vacation calendar!
Just curious, how did you make this? Did you import a .ics file? I tried editing the post, but I only saw this:
[calendar]
[/calendar]
It is a poorly documented Discourse plug-in.
The [calendar] macros in the first topic post activate it. Then, any replies with dates using the [date] macro become events. (With the event description preceding the date.) You can create recurring events using the right syntax — see the 
on the reply toolbar and go to “advanced” for a wizard that will build it, or you can use the macro markup directly if you know it.
This particular post is also marked as a “holiday” calendar. You get one of these per-site, and it does (at least) three special things:
- Marks the event with the username of the person who posted that event
- Adds flair next to the @username of anyone is on vacation across the site, while their vacation is active
- Puts a bunch of public holidays for everyone on the site who has set their locale.
I’ve asked Discourse support for a way to disable that last one, because it is way too much clutter on a busy site. But I think the first two are pretty useful — maybe even better than fedocal for this particular purpose.
I think maybe the holiday version does something special with colors on a per-user basis. @jflory7, want to add an example and we’ll see?
@jflory7 (or anyone curious, really) When you get a chance, can you add some times to this calendar? Doesn’t actually have to be real holidays; I just want to see what it looks like.
This is an exceptionally lovely calendar
Well that’s one way of looking at it. 
That display is not scalable at all.
It is very rudimentary, and has a lot of other problems and quirks — not to mention missing features. If we wanted to do calendaring this way, we’d need to put a lot into it.
This had a weird side-effect with the new vacation / away feature, so I have disabled it. That feature is generally better anyway.
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