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I loved Facebook in 2006. I would've kept loving Facebook if they didn't change a single thing about it for the last 11 years. As it stands, with all the innova

I loved Facebook in 2006. I would've kept loving Facebook if they didn't change a single thing about it for the last 11 years. As it stands, with all the innovation they've been doing, I deleted both my social account and my family account, and now only stick around for the event calendars. What parts of Meetup seem stagnant to you? What other innovation is there left to do? They let you create a meetup and describe it, make it paid or unpaid, allow +1's, post pictures, let people join, and have a message board. What else is missing? It already doesn't degrade to no-JS, but is not yet at the point where there's random shit happening all over the place without me asking. Please don't encourage them to move in that direction.

bcherny 9y ago
As someone that runs a 200+ member meetup in SF, I wish I had better tools to promote my meetup and put events in front of people. From the other side, discovering relevant meetups is hard. Searching all meetups in my area one keyword at a time sucks.
- forgotmypw 9y ago
  You've got a point there. Searching for something is hard, and basically boils down to using a couple of keywords, but not too many, and then just patiently going through all the results. It would be nice to be able to search by location, for example, or "what meetups are happening in the next 2-5 hours?" Unless I'm missing something, this is not easy at the moment.
- justonepost 9y ago
  Yeah, I wonder if that's on purpose. Discovery seems such an easy and obvious thing to optimize (A/B testing). Like the lack of spell correction in the AppStore. Must be some reason. Maybe they're hoping for serendipitous discoveries. Ie, if they make it too easy to find what you're looking for you might not find something you're not.
sitkack 9y ago
> What other innovation is there left to do? Biggest one, SMS broadcast to alert attendees of venue changes, gate codes, etc. It doesn't coordinate schedules or assist in transportation. The core site doesn't have to offer these things, but it sure as well could make it easy 3rd parties to integrate with Meetup itself. Second is discoverability and even seeing what is on the timeline of events, or prediction about which events will be well attended. Meetup could have been an amazing backplane for coordinating and mediating activities. Could have been. Hasn't been. Needs to be supplanted in the same way that overflow replaced experts exchange. It is barely an MVP for coordinating multiparty activities. It still feels like a 700 line single file php application that updates a status masthead and sends email.

bcherny 9y ago

As someone that runs a 200+ member meetup in SF, I wish I had better tools to promote my meetup and put events in front of people. From the other side, discovering relevant meetups is hard. Searching all meetups in my area one keyword at a time sucks.

forgotmypw 9y ago
You've got a point there. Searching for something is hard, and basically boils down to using a couple of keywords, but not too many, and then just patiently going through all the results. It would be nice to be able to search by location, for example, or "what meetups are happening in the next 2-5 hours?" Unless I'm missing something, this is not easy at the moment.
justonepost 9y ago
Yeah, I wonder if that's on purpose. Discovery seems such an easy and obvious thing to optimize (A/B testing). Like the lack of spell correction in the AppStore. Must be some reason. Maybe they're hoping for serendipitous discoveries. Ie, if they make it too easy to find what you're looking for you might not find something you're not.

sitkack 9y ago

> What other innovation is there left to do? Biggest one, SMS broadcast to alert attendees of venue changes, gate codes, etc. It doesn't coordinate schedules or assist in transportation. The core site doesn't have to offer these things, but it sure as well could make it easy 3rd parties to integrate with Meetup itself. Second is discoverability and even seeing what is on the timeline of events, or prediction about which events will be well attended. Meetup could have been an amazing backplane for coordinating and mediating activities. Could have been. Hasn't been. Needs to be supplanted in the same way that overflow replaced experts exchange. It is barely an MVP for coordinating multiparty activities. It still feels like a 700 line single file php application that updates a status masthead and sends email.