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Whoa. I missed this one. I used Meetup for years to power the "Tech Events Network" with 50+ US city-based accounts like https://twitter.com/ATXTechEvents http

Whoa. I missed this one. I used Meetup for years to power the "Tech Events Network" with 50+ US city-based accounts like https://twitter.com/ATXTechEvents https://twitter.com/ATXTechEvents Over the ~5 years I ran it, it was up to 4M+ impressions/month with a massive newsletter and pushing tons of traffic to tech groups, mostly hosted on Meetup. Then Meetup changed their API policy and said this was "an inappropriate use of the API" and poof, gone. Frustrating as hell because group leaders loved it and most of the traffic was going to them anyway. Arg.

ja27 3y ago
Yeah we use Meetup for probably 3-5 events a week at our makerspace. Their gradual decline has had us ready to stand up our own minimal replacement but Meetup.com is so good for discovery, SEO, etc. Their API changes have been a big pain in the ass for us. Just let us pay for access to the older API and we'll gladly do it. Then they turned off RSS feeds and nobody can get any answer out of them about whether it was intentional.