Meetup.com just wrote me (and probably all other subscribers), about a price change: from 29 to 99 USD for the six-month subscription!
My community has over two thousand members and I'm pretty sure it's partially because Meetup.com is such a well known platform. But our community was always non-profit and I don't think this can work for us anymore.
Meetup triples subscription price with less than a months notice
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#2Is there not any alternative viable for this?
With the same features and cheaper?
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#3Meetup has been dying for a while. I have been part of few meetups and almost all of them died due to low participation. I doubt meetup is doing well as a company and this is probably their last shot at trying to stay afloat. I would jump ship.
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#4Give Luma a try. Free tier has fairly generous for now and the UI for community & event management isn't ancient. It also offers an embed, so you can chuck it on your site.
Used to use meetup for a few years before going with Luma this year. Sure discoverability is a bit less if Meetup is the go-to in your area, but you can still get a core group of attendees in other ways and then grow the group from there.
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#5There is a newer meetup replacement called Heylo, which makes its money from you charging for your meetups. They get a percentage. It seems much more sustainable than Meetup. I'm going to start my next Meetup on it. I'm so done with Meetup.
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#6Meetup was just acquired in January - no doubt their new owners are seeing how they can make their investment profitable.
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#7Were you grandfathered in at a lower rate or something? I was paying $89.99 for 6 months back in 2018. Which was a completely ridiculous rate for a few meetups a year with a dozen or so people.
Cancelled meetup shortly thereafter and migrated the regulars to a Facebook group.
Then COVID basically killed the group anyway.
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#8Wow. I was going to start kicking an old gaming Meetup back to life, but looks like I'm going to invest my sanity elsewhere.
Likewise, I've only used Meetup for non-profits/community organizing, and frankly I can get most of the same features from a Wordpress/Jekyll website, a couple of plug-ins, and maybe Mastodon.
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#9I did a quick search. I think the price went up a while ago.
I would gladly pay a buck or two a month per group to attend. Have you asked your members?
There was a post here recently on replacements for meetup.com
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#10What’s an alternative to meetup? Facebook?