I think COVID did a number on a lot of the informal groups. These things take _so long_ to build up, and almost all existing ones suffered. It's only like 5 ye

I think COVID did a number on a lot of the informal groups. These things take _so long_ to build up, and almost all existing ones suffered. It's only like 5 years later that a lot of informal meetup groups that didn't get destroyed entirely seemed to have crawled back to their former size.