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Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by nickjj »

Relys wrote: post #161
nickjj wrote: post #14

This is a good reminder of why I stopped going to most local tech meetups ran by meetup.com. Not because of the upcoming $2 fee, but because most of the time it's a 2 hour tech meetup where you spend 15 minutes mingling at the start, then 1 hour and 30 minutes listening to advertisements disguised as talks where you sit down and remain silent and then another 15 minutes mingling at the end. It feels so corporate and…

Bro, 2600 meetups never stopped happening, you just stopped attending.

I know, I'm just saying a bunch of other tech meetups that I've been to have been the total opposite experience of what those 2600 meetups were like back then.

So much has changed in ~20 years around tech in general. I wonder what a current day 2600 meetup is like. I may go check one out.

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Post by em-bee »

dorfsmay wrote: post #157
em-bee wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

one group i am in uses meetup for event announcements, but manages the event on their own website. it's really just to enable people to find them on meetup. meetup never sees any rsvps except some that rsvp by mistake. the only thing that virality helps with is event anouncements. finding all events in the same place, that is what makes meetup.com useful. the actual registration, and what not can be done anywhere els…

For smaller group, people updating attendance is really useful. I've cancelled meetings when not enough people could attend, or change venue if more than I initially anticipated acknowledged. This is not easy to do on a simple github.io style static site.

oh, of course, but it doesn't have to happen on meetup.com, you can use any other service, from the many suggested in this discussion.

of course having two sites is more complex than having it all-in-one. that was the whole benefit of meetup.com, but that benefit is now going away.

one reaction is to reduce the dependency on meetup.com for groups. we need meetup.com to help get the word out, but we can use other tools for the actual group management.

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Post by daurnimator »

olegp wrote: post #255
axman6 wrote: post #244

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So, uh, how do we go about adding new locations? Specifically, Canberra, Australia would be great =)

You have to ask me :) Canberra added.

Please add Melbourne! I have a couple of meetups that I would like to move off meetup.com ASAP.

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Post by edisonjoao »

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.

please add http://foxie.cool

it's a laid back for activities

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Post by bdr »

jboynyc wrote: post #256
bdr wrote: post #116

I'm building Mixily.com as a general event-organizing tool. Like an alternative to FB events, but with better styling, features, and privacy policy. It launched in July and works great for one-off events. For recurring events, we have some features in private beta, like pre-set guest lists and a forum. Email me at andrew@mixily.com if you want to try it out!

This looks very nice -- like a long-overdue replacement for crush3r.com, which I was very fond of ca. 2011. Keep it up!

Thank you!

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Post by rocelot »

olegp wrote: post #255
axman6 wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, uh, how do we go about adding new locations? Specifically, Canberra, Australia would be great =)

You have to ask me :) Canberra added.

Can you add Boston MA? Thriving tech scene here, would love to see it on the list :)
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