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Sounds good, or we could also try having an automatic thread on the 1st/14th(?) of the month, like the hiring ones.
by ValentineC 5y ago
Sounds good, or we could also try having an automatic thread on the 1st/14th(?) of the month, like the hiring ones.
- dang 5y agoYes, that would be a more organic way to start.
- codetrotter 5y agoPlease do, and name the threads “Meet HN: December 2021” etc
- thedailymail 5y agoI attended a Hacker News-adjacent meetup event at a pizza place in Osaka a few years ago. I'm not a "hacker" but it was a nice way to meet smart/lonely/bored people in a region where they are isolated enough to make meetup events really meaningful. I hope this kind of thing sees a resurgence post-COVID.
- dang 5y agoThere was a HN group in Japan that met for years, but I forget where exactly they were. There was another in San Diego that met for years (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1308886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1308886 - note the response from pg!) Scott and I used to talk about randomly showing up one day.
- moralestapia 5y agoPlease, bring it on!
- throwaway13337 5y agoThis is a terrific idea and I’d love to see it. The format of a regular post wherein people could post which city (or virtual space) they’re in and up to meet in x place at y time open to replies would seem to feel the most in HN spirit. The regularity of a post and the lack of a formalized format would go a long way to make it casual and low effort. This is important as I think the more formal meetup with PowerPoint in company office looking to hire is not something I’d like to see repeated. This could be something different.
- dang 5y agoOne thing we could do pretty easily is use IP geolocation to highlight "meetup in $place" posts for readers who are accessing HN from $place. I'm not sure if this would be extremely welcome or extremely off-putting. I mean, I'm sure it would be both, for different users, but I'm not sure what the percentages would be.
- ValentineC 5y agoTop-level posts, or comments? It'll also be good if locations/cities couldn't be monopolised by a single large meetup. I attended a few HNLondon meetups back in 2012, but came away with nothing. Smaller meetups might work better for actually getting to know people.
- dang 5y agoIP geolocation gives latitude/longitude. Maybe we could sort such posts by proximity. Whether they'd be comments or top-level posts would depend on the format I suppose.