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Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by donretag »

intrasight wrote: post #96

So many posts say "Meetup.com sucks but they have 'the community'" I don't understand this sentiment. Your town or city is the community - not some random web site. And your town, if it's like mine, has one ore more newspapers that maintain community events calendars. And Google manages events now with Google search. I google "beer event pittsburgh" and Google shows me the results. What exactly is the value-add of me…

The value add is discovery.

Since many meet already be on meetup.com, they then discover another meetup which also might suit them. All these alternatives might have the functionality that meetup does, but none of them provide exposure.

Everyone loves to hate on ads nowadays. They do not want to be tracked, etc, but I would love to see an ad-supported version of Meetup. It is too expensive at $15 a month for many small groups.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by sitkack »

davidy123 wrote: post #63
iamspoilt wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s the first thing I thought after going through the linked article. We strongly need some aggregating tool for all events happening around a particular location.

No, and looking for tools (or Portals as they are groaningly called) is where the Web went wrong. We need strongly aggregatable data, not a tool. In fact this data format already exists in schema.org, which is an open, community-driven effort by Google, Bing, Yandex and others. https://schema.org/Event schema.org is used by about a third of web sites to allow them to be self contained but make their information disco…

It is called RSS with microformats and this is exactly where the web was in what, 2003/5?

Part of censuring Big Tech should be forcing them to adopt open standards, XMPP, RSS, Microformats, etc.

http://microformats.org/wiki/RSS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by james_impliu »

peterwwillis wrote: post #8

I was thinking of an alternative that would allow anyone to publish a meeting with a standard data format (similar to recipes) and get picked up by a massive meeting indexer. But then I realized that event coordinators want a lot of control over RSVPs, sending messages to attendees, and the ability to collect money ahead of time to pre-pay for event supplies, etc. It really is annoying that you need a platform to han…

This would be cool - an RSS feed for meetings, sort of. You could even display it in your calendar app directly.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by aedocw »

jabvigWe wrote: post #98
degenerate wrote: post #3

The list: https://emamo.com https://kommunity.com https://joinmobilizon.org/en https://cete.io (not yet launched?) https://eventy.io (not yet launched) And the not-yet-build one by FreeCodeCamp: https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241 I've never heard of any of them. Opinions?

https://gettogether.community/ free software, works well.

I'm really surprised to see GetTogether is not better know. I think it's one of the best alternatives available.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by sitkack »

I hate meetup so. damn. much! They have now become the shty equivalent of the yellow pages, needed but detested at the same time. The rents they seek with the desert of functionality conspires to boil my blood. I will dance in the street when they are replaced by anything, anything at all.

We need a community run service, not a for profit company.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by NicoJuicy »

Cshelton wrote: post #79
jborichevskiy wrote: post #11

Somewhat related note: as someone living in a major city I find it increasingly hard to discover relevant events happening soon/around me. Events I'm looking for span a range of interests, artists, bands, topics, hobbies, and causes - hence no one central location has a list of everything relevant to me. So I'm forced to regularly dig through Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook, Google Events Search, individual sites, indiv…

I'm actually building something right now. I'm building it because it is a problem I've faced among my friends and well.. the "millennial" generation to begin with. I'm building it first to be used among myself and friends. I don't want to say too much because to me the solution seems so obvious and I'd like to have something out there and tried on a small scale first, but... the key is not to focus on events directl…

Let's talk, i'm building one too.

But with some different use-cases probably.

Nico at Sapico dot me

I have a marketing plan ready which is dublicateable for every city.

Belgium and Netherlands is reserved for me ;)

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by olegp »

olegp wrote: post #58

Another alternative aimed at technical meetups is https://meetabit.com which we built at Toughbyte. I organize a number of technical meetups, such as HelsinkiJS which is the biggest developer meetup in Finland, and have found Meetup.com lacking. To scratch our own itch, we built Meetabit which includes some additional features such as the ability to accept talk proposals and sponsorship offers, have speaker profiles,…

I also posted this as a Show HN and there's a discussion in the comments there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21261397

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by scjody »

A decentralized approach that doesn't depend on one corporate service remaining profitable (or one nonprofit remaining viable) would be great.

The Zot protocol https://zotlabs.org/page/zotlabs/home can do distributed event invitations but the leading implementation Hubzilla has horrendous UX and an unpalatable (PHP + JQuery) tech stack. I'd love to have time to reimplement it in a more developer and user friendly way - focusing on events only to start with could make this a reasonable task.

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