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I upgraded to a larger RDS instance and we're running fine again now.
It would be cool if you could tell us more about the structure behind the website.
http://lanyrd.com/colophon has some details
Lanyrd feeds: never miss out on a conference
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Re: Lanyrd feeds: never miss out on a conference
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We're a bit worried about our "the social conference directory" tagline, since we've had a few people think the site is only for social media conferences.
Lots of people are using Lanyrd for group meetings, social events, and all sorts of things that aren't conferences (eg http://lanyrd.com/2010/brightonpy-october/skgp/ ). It might be worth rethinking the tagline to make it more friendly to this kind of thing - assuming it's something you want to encourage.
That's very true, but what are these "things"? They aren't just general "events" a la Plancast. "meetup" has been taken by another brand in the same space. Meeting sounds too... work like :-)
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"... who's attending (and which of those are your friends), the planned sessions, and the date/time. ..." Didn't see that. I was trying to think of how the service could supply you with contrary data - reasons to not attend. If I want to try a new restaurant, I'll check for balanced critical reviews not just the facts.
So far we've been quite careful not to address that kind of use case - we don't have comments on events, for example - partly because we don't want to discourage conference organisers and speakers from using the site but also because we want to avoid negativity becoming a core part of the community we are building. We'd rather make the great events obvious than highlight events that aren't so good. People have a limi…
"... So far we've been quite careful not to address that kind of use case ..."
I haven't used the service but I would have thought people do this anyway - back channel chatter. SO the service is all open? You can't openly discuss how good/bad a conference is to force conferences to improve? Either way it's a great idea, keeping coding.