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There's plenty of alternatives if you're looking for event registration. My preferred at the moment is TicketTailor.com, but there's everything from Eventbrite
by rexreed 2y ago
There's plenty of alternatives if you're looking for event registration. My preferred at the moment is TicketTailor.com, but there's everything from Eventbrite to Luma to Brown Paper Tickets. Now they won't bring you the community, but you can get community from Discord channels to LinkedIn Groups to X and other social media.
Meetup is awful in that they hold your group hostage and you have no way of moving your members, so if you decide no longer to run the Meetup one day, they will let you walk away, but anyone else can just step up and take over the group and do whatever they want. Even worse than Facebook groups.
- probably_wrong 2y agoI find your phrasing of "your group" interesting. I've taken over a Meetup group after the original organizer vanished, and I never felt that the community was mine. I was just the guy keeping the ball rolling, same as the one before and same as the one who took over afterwards. I consider few things as annoying as a single person deciding that a community is done for good.
- arp242 2y agoTicketTailor.com is "Sell your Tickets online". That's a fundamentally different thing than most of Meetup.com. One of the major values of Meetup.com was always "I'm new here and have no friends, what's there to do?", "I'm bored, what's there to do?" and things like that. Random Discord channels or some Tweets don't solve that. Meetup was never super-brilliant, but this is really not a tech problem.