I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook. I didn't really realize this until when I used it to create an event for a house party... I was somewhat surprised that only 2 people out of 15 even saw it. I ended up resorting to good old text message and that worked, but it was tedious. Not sure how popular this will become, but having a social-media-less event invite/broadcasting system would be nice, and having one that most people with an iPhone have access to covers much of my friend base
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#52It's always nice to see some first-party apps from Apple[0], but historically the "iPhone-only social networking" hasn't been very successful — iTunes Ping or Game Center haven't been a huge hit, while group messaging in iMessage has only gained some traction within the US and virtually non-existent almost everywhere else.
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[0] One can even say "first first-party party app" in this case :)
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#53After spending $49 on a crappy baby shower invite sending tool I’m glad to hear this. Could save a lot of people a lot of money! Hopefully it works for non Apple users too.
What’s missing when sending invites via mail, or a message on a social media they’re in?
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#54I really needed this, I have not used Facebook Events in a while though that is the only way to easily engage and plan: the "ease of use" (as lazyness of not having to deal with many other issues) is way better than Calendar invites. I'll try to use it on my next event with my friends, as I am avoiding as much as I can Meta, and Calendar / ical are not the best to deal with this kind of event! :)
Why not Partiful? It's already widely adopted, has all the features you need, isn't owned by a big tech company, doesn't require an account, and is multiplatform. Signed, an Android user
everyone I know uses partiful for events these days
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#55> Anyone can reply to invitations. Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.
DOA
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#56No one will use this
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#57What's wrong with "create a Whatsapp group and invite all your friends there, and if they don't care they just mute/leave"?
Americans don't really do whatsapp
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#58correct me if I'm wrong but this used to be a main feature of facebook. Are they starting to compete?
A lot of people are not using Facebook, so it’s easier to use custom tools that only require a browser and send SMS/e-mail for alerts.
Some of them have Facebook, but turned off all notifications and never check for updates. So they can be counted as not having it.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.
But no-one without an Apple Account can create them - you can only respond to Apple-having friends. There is social pressure in that too.
A company creating a useful tool that encourages people to buy their product is incredibly boring, typical, and not at all controversial until it's Apple doing it.
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#60I hope this doesn't take off at all as it would be a net-negative for everyone involved.
The whole "app for events" experience is a complete piece of crap with the exception of lu.ma perhaps.
"Oh you're not an Apple user, whoops you can't RSVP" is a giant step towards enshittifying them even more.