Events Page Discovery Section Removal

Decision: The /events page carries no lower-page discovery/conversion section. The page is hero + event list, full stop.

Status: Decided 9 June 2026 (removal shipped to main 10 June, commits cde013a and fd17a55); confirmed by Shae 11 June 2026 when the orphaned component was deleted (merge e8be188 on pride-website).

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Decision Rationale

The lower discovery section (three modules: “New here?” → /find-us, “Follow” → socials, “Host a night” → /functions#enquire, plus a “coming up next” strip) was added 2 June 2026 and removed a week later. All three of its jobs are already covered elsewhere on the site:

1. Find Us is a top-level nav item on every page.
2. Socials and community links render in the site-wide footer, and the events page empty state (EventsNoEventsState) shows follow links in exactly the case conversion matters — when there is nothing to book.
3. Functions/host-a-night is linked in the footer, and the functions page carries the enquiry form.

The section was a conversion band, not information architecture — removing it loses no destination and keeps the events page focused on the listings.

Guard and reversal path

• A source-level test (eventsPageDiscovery.test.ts in pride-website) enforces that /events does not re-import the section.
• A poster-panel redesign of the component (explored 9 June, never mounted) is preserved in git history at efd4208 on the codex/WEB-EVENTS-UX-1-design-bugs lane if a lower conversion band is ever wanted back.