WeWork acquires Meetup.com

StavrosK wrote: post #2

Does this mean that meetup.com will actually stop being terrible now? They've been stagnating and coasting on their market share for years.

They launched a redesign recently. https://www.meetup.com/redesign

Re: WeWork acquires Meetup.com

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Post by Danihan » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 6:22 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #2

Does this mean that meetup.com will actually stop being terrible now? They've been stagnating and coasting on their market share for years.

>We are Meetup, dammit! We needed to act. So last week we stopped normal operations for a company-wide hackathon (a “resist-a-thon”) to help people get involved.

Then six months later we sold the company, whoopsie-doodle.

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Post by aphextron » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

What an incredibly unreadable font

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Post by aaronchall » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

STRiDEX wrote: post #4

StavrosK wrote: post #2

Does this mean that meetup.com will actually stop being terrible now? They've been stagnating and coasting on their market share for years.

They launched a redesign recently. https://www.meetup.com/redesign

Which I tried out early on and came to regret as they were not updating comments on meetup pages.

Not to be too critical though, they've created a lot of value for a lot of people, and especially so for me when I moved to NYC. (No good meetups in my podunk hometown of Pensacola...).

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Post by Phosphenes » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 6:38 PM UTC

So it's going to be like meetup, but for business?

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Post by cylinder » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 7:21 PM UTC

Next they'll do an ICO just to their tenants ("members")! This will surely increase bonds amongst them!

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Post by pw » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 7:28 PM UTC

This seems like yet another example of how tech’s ridiculous focus on ambition and growth are going to kill something that’s just fine the way it is. I’m a fan of Meetup.com, and it sounds like they are/were self-sufficient, but suddenly the cofounder and CEO thinks they need to grow to a “billion members”. Sad.