How Socialpass stays accurate.

How every listing in the global Latin dance directory gets sourced, edited, and kept current.

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Every listing is edited by a human. When there is a stable public citation, the event carries a sourceUrl pointing to where the editor saw it: often the organizer's own page, a venue website, an Instagram post, a Facebook event, or a regional aggregator like salsavida.com or latindancecalendar.com. Two independent sources is the bar we prefer; one good first-party source is the minimum.

You can see this in practice on any event page — the editor's pick Latin Fridays at Lula Lounge in Toronto links straight back to lula.ca where the schedule lives. If the source ever moves or goes dark, the listing re-enters the editor queue before it ages another week.

Every event and city carries a verifiedAt timestamp — the date an editor last confirmed the schedule against its source. Weekly socials go stale after 90 days without a re-check; festivals after 30 days, because dates and ticket links shift faster as the event approaches.

The audit runs city-by-city on a rolling cadence — the longest-untouched city is reviewed first. Wrong dates, dead links, closed venues, or a moved social all push the city back to the top of the queue. You can see the live status of every city, sorted by last-audit date, on the per-city freshness dashboard.

Stale listings surface the organizer's Instagram as a one-tap hand-off — the canonical source for tonight's status (venue swaps, cancellations, lineup changes). We don't scrape it; we link to it.

• No reviews or ratings. The directory tells you what's on, not what we think of it.
• We don't auto-scrape. Every listing is added by hand. Scraped data ages badly and reads as untrustworthy — both to dancers and to crawlers.
• We don't paywall the data. Listings are free for organizers and free to read. Verify your listing, edit it anytime — no fee.
• We don't speak languages other than English yet. Listings can be in any country, but the interface is English-only at launch. Translation is on the roadmap, not the bench.

Socialpass is currently a small operation. The directory is edited by a small founding team, with a rotating set of volunteer editors covering specific cities and regions.