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If a meetup is not even worth $2 to attend, is it really worth an hour+ of your personal time?
Considering it's mostly organizers who've been the most vocal about it, this is a pretty strange question.
These are interesting. Premise is a bit perplexing. Don’t have $2? Really? Even meetups for spiritual teachers who operate as a non profit suggest a $20 donation per event for instance. Anyone know of a meetup for people interested in physics, meditation, and software entrepreneurship in the Bay Area? You’d think that would be easy to find given the areas demographics...
One could counter that these people are the ones who've spoilt the market for the rest of us.
And really, it's not attendees who're complaining, it's organizers who believe in keeping their events free for attendees.
A lot of the alternatives posted look like they'd be a good fit for my group. However, I feel the discoverability isn't there. The local UX meetup will likely choose one platform. The local frontend developers meetup will choose another. Reliable, consistent members will follow the group regardless of the platform but I've always liked how easy it is for a local developer to just stumble across my group. The best par…
I think discoverability can be had via Google events search, Facebook, Eventbrite, etc.
Yes, there will be fragmentation, but I know people have found out about Meetup events via Eventbrite, and people have mentioned these on HN as well. So fragmentation is status quo anyway.
>I've always liked how easy it is for a local developer to just stumble across my group.
You could do what some organizers have been doing: advertise your events on multiple channels.
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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 sma…
I still don't get the "discovery" thing. I hear about events either via word of mouth or from posts on Facebook. Or if I'm looking for an event I Google. How would I "discover" events on meetup.com or another event service?
Meetup has a search engine that allows you to find events by date, location, or subject matter. So I could
- look up events near me for this coming week.
- look up events within a certain radius from a location.
- look up events based on my interests.
> if I'm looking for an event I Google.
That's the fallback. I think what Meetup provided was a single site that people visit to find local events that fit their interests, which also allowed community-building.
Meetup.com is a truly horrible site and corporation. They hold your meetup group hostage if you're an organizer. What do I mean by that? Since you have no contact information for any of your attendees, you can't reach out to them to move them to another platform. You can't shut down your Meetup either. Instead, you can simply resign as an organizer. This allows someone else to step in and take over. Taking all the ha…
>It would be nice if Meetup could give you the contact information of all your members
Meetup has a spam problem, as greggman2 has pointed out.[0] Your proposal would make that worse.
>This allows someone else to step in and take over. Taking all the hard work you did to create the meetup and giving it to someone else.
Believe it or not, some people think this is a feature. I know of groups where the original organizer(s) had to leave the locality for various reasons, but designated successor(s) to keep the group going.
>allow you to close a group without allowing anyone else to step in.
Yes, that'd be good to have.
>They hold your meetup group hostage if you're an organizer.
Yes, all these contributed to lock-in, but some of these were features that some people wanted in the past, or at least that's my impression from using the site for many years.
UPDATE: actually, let me add the means to add/edit events there today...
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…
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.
It's only tech events in the US but a fairly exhaustive list.
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've played with a recommendation engine but haven't fully baked it into the systems yet.
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?