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This 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
by throwaway13337 5y ago
This 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.