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My wife is in a position (board chair for a co-op) that results in her sending out a lot of invites to events. Evite has kinda been the go-to in her social/co-

My wife is in a position (board chair for a co-op) that results in her sending out a lot of invites to events. Evite has kinda been the go-to in her social/co-op group for ages, but man it suuuuuuucks these days. Ads everywhere, annoying patterns, and lacks a bunch of nice features that this seems to have. Very happy to see this

boringg 2y ago
Evite was hot for awhile - totally gone downhill. Same as meetups. Tough to make those things as paid businesses which is probably necessary to keep them operating well (or at least take VC money and try and make a return).
- ghaff 2y ago
  I see very little use of either Evite or Meetup at this point though I imagine if I sought them out I'd see some continued use. (I do run into an Evite signup from time to time for a paid event.)
- slt2021 2y ago
  I see people using Luma everywhere these days
  - 42772827 2y ago
    Luma and Gemini have very similar logos, it’s kind of off putting
    - pnw 2y ago
      Luma drives me nuts at conferences, I often end up invited to events without an address because they expect you to subscribe to their calendar feed rather than letting me put an entry in my own calendar.
- CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
  Meetup has become the worst service I use, bar none. They pretty much doubled our group fees from $200 a year to $400 a year, then started putting giant banner ads at the top of all of our member emails, then started locking essential features (like seeing RSVP lists) behind a member-level membership and started begging our members to give them money directly.
- bombcar 2y ago
  I think Apple's right about at least part of this - something like Evite isn't an app (or worth paying for), it's a feature that needs to be stuck onside another app that gets paid for.
- ryandrake 2y ago
  For a short period of time back in 2013 or so, we had AnyVite, which was so much better than Evite in all ways. I wonder what happened to them. I think they basically disappeared.
nostromo 2y ago
I organize a lot of events for a rugby team, and our events are now all on Partiful. Maybe it'll go downhill like Evite and Facebook Events - but for now it's quite good.
- svnt 2y ago
  How is it funded? That is your answer.
  - echelon 2y ago
    Not everything is in the position or can afford to transitionally tax the whole of the internet itself like big tech. You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky. In a few years you'll read articles about uncool Android kids not getting invited to parties. And that's your answer. One of these behaviors is way more insidious.
    - ToucanLoucan 2y ago
      > You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky. I'm not stuck to Apple's platform, I'm quite happy here. Apple services aren't drenched in ads end to end. Apple's services aren't constantly asking for nickels and dimes; it's one charge, every month, for a buffet of services that are regularly added to and actually improved, making them distinct from... fuck, the rest of the Internet basically, which seems to boil down to a revolving door of stupidly named services backed by VC funding that get popular, quickly, because they don't charge anything and aren't drenched in ads, and then slowly they add the ads, but there's an ad free tier for not much money, oh but now there's ads in that tier, which is also more expensive, and then the service shuts down because they didn't hit 60 billion users before their runway ran out, but there's this new service... And while I'm certain they do some spying and whatnot to facilitate targeted ads, they at least pay lip service to my privacy, and my experiences developing stuff for their hardware tells me that at least there is a whiff of security to their hardware. There are a lot of things as a developer I'm straight up not allowed to do. The "insidiousness" of Apple's plan so far seems to be, largely, making damn good products that people want to use, and backing them up with cloud services that work well. I wish more tech firms took that approach to be totally honest.
echelon 2y ago
Luma and Partiful are really good. This Apple thing is going to turn into a "green text" social signalling thing all over again. If you have an Android, you won't be invited. More scummy Apple social engineering bullshit. Kids that already hate on those having Android colored text bubbles are going to bully each other even more. And of course kids need the latest iPhone, too. Apple is playing into this brilliantly and it's disgusting.
- astrange 2y ago
  This green text thing only happens in the US. Nobody really uses iMessage elsewhere.
  - echelon 2y ago
    It shouldn't be allowed in the US. Lina Khan was going to put a stop to it, but tragically that didn't reach its culmination.
    - briandear 2y ago
      Why? Does the color affect functionality or are we going to pass laws based on feelings?
      - dwaltrip 2y ago
        Hate to break it to ya, everything humans do is fundamentally affected by feelings.
      - echelon 2y ago
        > are we going to pass laws based on feelings? This is very concrete fuckery. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/apple-doj-antitrust-lawsuit-00148189 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/apple-doj-antitrust... https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473453/why-green-text-bubble-stigma-is-part-of-the-anti-trust-case-against-apple https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473453/why-green-text-bub... https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doj-claims-green-bubbles-are-an-issue-in-iphone-monopoly-suit/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doj-claims-green-bubbles-a...
elwillbo 2y ago
yeah, Evite used to really shine but now I feel like it's just an invitation to see ads
culi 2y ago
Nothing beats https://www.when2meet.com/ https://www.when2meet.com/ I've used it for so much community organizing. It's such a simple tool and nobody has to make an account. You put in your name and an (optional) password. The optional password feature has served as a source of inspiration in my own projects. It pushed me to consider "does this really need an account? Can it be done without one?"
- acomjean 2y ago
  Seems similar to when is good, which also has allows passwordless usage. https://whenisgood.net/ https://whenisgood.net/ I paid to go ad free. We like it though it’s been down a couple times last year..
- lurking_swe 2y ago
  looks awful on mobile. i do appreciate that it’s very accessible though.
bushbaba 2y ago
Tend to agree. Hopefully Google will also offer their own alternative to this. (Free) Online invites just suck these days
- vl 2y ago
  You mean, like, Google Calendar? Groundbreaking free service to invite people?
  - dhosek 2y ago
    Calendar invites and social invites are very different beasts.
earthnail 2y ago
I can highly recommend https://confetti.events/ https://confetti.events/ for this. Profitable small company (not affiliated but know the founders), won’t go downhill like evite.
- swyx 2y ago
  partiful i guess is the hot one in SF/NYC
highwaylights 2y ago
I could see it being really useful for that, my only hesitation would be that here in Europe it would need to support Android due to how ubiquitous that is here.

boringg 2y ago

Evite was hot for awhile - totally gone downhill. Same as meetups. Tough to make those things as paid businesses which is probably necessary to keep them operating well (or at least take VC money and try and make a return).

ghaff 2y ago
I see very little use of either Evite or Meetup at this point though I imagine if I sought them out I'd see some continued use. (I do run into an Evite signup from time to time for a paid event.)
slt2021 2y ago
I see people using Luma everywhere these days
- 42772827 2y ago
  Luma and Gemini have very similar logos, it’s kind of off putting
  - pnw 2y ago
    Luma drives me nuts at conferences, I often end up invited to events without an address because they expect you to subscribe to their calendar feed rather than letting me put an entry in my own calendar.
CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
Meetup has become the worst service I use, bar none. They pretty much doubled our group fees from $200 a year to $400 a year, then started putting giant banner ads at the top of all of our member emails, then started locking essential features (like seeing RSVP lists) behind a member-level membership and started begging our members to give them money directly.
bombcar 2y ago
I think Apple's right about at least part of this - something like Evite isn't an app (or worth paying for), it's a feature that needs to be stuck onside another app that gets paid for.
ryandrake 2y ago
For a short period of time back in 2013 or so, we had AnyVite, which was so much better than Evite in all ways. I wonder what happened to them. I think they basically disappeared.

nostromo 2y ago

I organize a lot of events for a rugby team, and our events are now all on Partiful. Maybe it'll go downhill like Evite and Facebook Events - but for now it's quite good.

svnt 2y ago
How is it funded? That is your answer.
- echelon 2y ago
  Not everything is in the position or can afford to transitionally tax the whole of the internet itself like big tech. You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky. In a few years you'll read articles about uncool Android kids not getting invited to parties. And that's your answer. One of these behaviors is way more insidious.
  - ToucanLoucan 2y ago
    > You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky. I'm not stuck to Apple's platform, I'm quite happy here. Apple services aren't drenched in ads end to end. Apple's services aren't constantly asking for nickels and dimes; it's one charge, every month, for a buffet of services that are regularly added to and actually improved, making them distinct from... fuck, the rest of the Internet basically, which seems to boil down to a revolving door of stupidly named services backed by VC funding that get popular, quickly, because they don't charge anything and aren't drenched in ads, and then slowly they add the ads, but there's an ad free tier for not much money, oh but now there's ads in that tier, which is also more expensive, and then the service shuts down because they didn't hit 60 billion users before their runway ran out, but there's this new service... And while I'm certain they do some spying and whatnot to facilitate targeted ads, they at least pay lip service to my privacy, and my experiences developing stuff for their hardware tells me that at least there is a whiff of security to their hardware. There are a lot of things as a developer I'm straight up not allowed to do. The "insidiousness" of Apple's plan so far seems to be, largely, making damn good products that people want to use, and backing them up with cloud services that work well. I wish more tech firms took that approach to be totally honest.

echelon 2y ago

Luma and Partiful are really good. This Apple thing is going to turn into a "green text" social signalling thing all over again. If you have an Android, you won't be invited. More scummy Apple social engineering bullshit. Kids that already hate on those having Android colored text bubbles are going to bully each other even more. And of course kids need the latest iPhone, too. Apple is playing into this brilliantly and it's disgusting.

astrange 2y ago
This green text thing only happens in the US. Nobody really uses iMessage elsewhere.
- echelon 2y ago
  It shouldn't be allowed in the US. Lina Khan was going to put a stop to it, but tragically that didn't reach its culmination.
  - briandear 2y ago
    Why? Does the color affect functionality or are we going to pass laws based on feelings?
    - dwaltrip 2y ago
      Hate to break it to ya, everything humans do is fundamentally affected by feelings.
    - echelon 2y ago
      > are we going to pass laws based on feelings? This is very concrete fuckery. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/apple-doj-antitrust-lawsuit-00148189 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/apple-doj-antitrust... https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473453/why-green-text-bubble-stigma-is-part-of-the-anti-trust-case-against-apple https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473453/why-green-text-bub... https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doj-claims-green-bubbles-are-an-issue-in-iphone-monopoly-suit/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doj-claims-green-bubbles-a...

elwillbo 2y ago

yeah, Evite used to really shine but now I feel like it's just an invitation to see ads

culi 2y ago

Nothing beats https://www.when2meet.com/ https://www.when2meet.com/ I've used it for so much community organizing. It's such a simple tool and nobody has to make an account. You put in your name and an (optional) password. The optional password feature has served as a source of inspiration in my own projects. It pushed me to consider "does this really need an account? Can it be done without one?"

acomjean 2y ago
Seems similar to when is good, which also has allows passwordless usage. https://whenisgood.net/ https://whenisgood.net/ I paid to go ad free. We like it though it’s been down a couple times last year..
lurking_swe 2y ago
looks awful on mobile. i do appreciate that it’s very accessible though.

bushbaba 2y ago

Tend to agree. Hopefully Google will also offer their own alternative to this. (Free) Online invites just suck these days

vl 2y ago
You mean, like, Google Calendar? Groundbreaking free service to invite people?
- dhosek 2y ago
  Calendar invites and social invites are very different beasts.

earthnail 2y ago

I can highly recommend https://confetti.events/ https://confetti.events/ for this. Profitable small company (not affiliated but know the founders), won’t go downhill like evite.

swyx 2y ago
partiful i guess is the hot one in SF/NYC

highwaylights 2y ago

I could see it being really useful for that, my only hesitation would be that here in Europe it would need to support Android due to how ubiquitous that is here.