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WOW! This is interesting. I belong to 2 large-ish meetups that in the past few months have been migrating to a Facebook page. I have run meetups of all kinds,

WOW! This is interesting. I belong to 2 large-ish meetups that in the past few months have been migrating to a Facebook page. I have run meetups of all kinds, from tech to social; and I am now running 3 meetups and IMO this is not only a disaster for meetup.com but offers an incredible opportunity to take the cherry for: * Facebook * EventBrite * a new startup taking over this space Unless meetup.com rever its course, this is going to go down as the worst decision ever. I am sorry if We spend a lot of money on it, stil.... 2 wrong don't make one right.

greggman2 7y ago
I'm sure I'm in a small minority of the general public (though maybe not HN?) but I don't want Facebook to know about my meetup/event interests. It's not so much that I hate being tracked by Facebook though I do. For me it's more about just not wanting event stuff mixed in with my friends and family feed. They're separate things to me. I could also be I might not want to share what meetups I'm going to with friends and family.
Santoshpanda 7y ago
Meetup is heading Ning way => https://www.zdnet.com/article/andreessen-founded-ning-cuts-staff-free-service/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/andreessen-founded-ning-cuts-s... I run the Explara Community Software, which powers smaller to the largest community like https://hub.tie.org/ https://hub.tie.org/ Explara Community Software has super advantages to group owners who don't need Meetup network effect as such. More on https://info.explara.com/switch-from-meetup-to-explara https://info.explara.com/switch-from-meetup-to-explara