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I've been to some very quality meetups actually. I should go to more.

• Kagerjay 9y ago
  I went to meetups in big tech cities and less tech-oriented cities, the ones that I liked the most were the ones that had a permanent space in bigger cities. The one I liked the most was in LA, called nullspace labs. You could learn things like soldering, assembly language, gamedev, webpenetration(Radare32), and lots of other interesting topics that you wouldn't necessarily find good resources on youtube. I think meetups with a clear goal in mind (e.g. Tennis-Only meetup, Javascript-Only meetup, Python-Only meetup) and have much more engaging / interesting conversation topics long term. Short term its nice to get to know 1 or 2 people at a large meetup ("Entreprenuers", "Young and Active"),or when visiting a new city for the first time. That and meetup.com is just a load of notification spam if you just randomly join meetup groups. Some meetups IMO are very spammy in nature, especially those related to B2B, "entreprenuership" or "business" or "strategy" since its mostly consultants peddling their skillsets or startups. You'll find way more engaging topics on reddit for these. So I'm pretty excited to see Meetup and WeWork merge together, hopefully this new change would be good. Possibly higher quality meetups overall