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I see a lot of people using https://luma.com/ https://luma.com/. I'm sure it's not as big as Meetup but it does have a decent community of users, and you can se

I see a lot of people using https://luma.com/ https://luma.com/. I'm sure it's not as big as Meetup but it does have a decent community of users, and you can set up pretty much anything with their free plan.

alephnerd 4mo ago
At least in the Bay, Luma and Partiful are much bigger than Meetup now.
- mmarian 4mo ago
  Interesting. Luma is getting traction in London. Not so much outside.
  - alephnerd 4mo ago
    It's about the user bases - Luma and Partiful are almost entirely professionals in careers like Tech, Finance, or Entertainment (especially LA), and the events almost always vet before accepting people. This helps ensure a better noise to signal ratio that Meetup simply couldn't provide.
    - mmarian 4mo ago
      Interesting point, but I personally didn't find Meetup had a noise issue. You could filter for the right stuff, pretty easily. Also I don't see how Luma/Partiful will avoid this problem eventually.
mmarian 4mo ago
Luma doesn't do discoverability well unfortunately. Also very tech centric.
- burkaman 4mo ago
  I think it depends where you are. SF is all tech stuff but https://luma.com/chicago https://luma.com/chicago for example is mostly non-tech.
  - mmarian 4mo ago
    Oh, didn't know that. My perspective is from the UK.
baggachipz 4mo ago
I had a good giggle when I opened their homepage and it looks exactly like the Performative-UI library[1] currently in the #1 spot.
- burkaman 4mo ago
  True, I think they were early to the trend though, it's looked like that basically since they launched: https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/
gulugawa 4mo ago
I've looked at Luma and have mixed thoughts. The UI is a massive improvement over Meetup. However, it seems to be following the standard VC funded business model of attracting users and pushing excessive monetization once users are dependent.

alephnerd 4mo ago

At least in the Bay, Luma and Partiful are much bigger than Meetup now.

mmarian 4mo ago
Interesting. Luma is getting traction in London. Not so much outside.
- alephnerd 4mo ago
  It's about the user bases - Luma and Partiful are almost entirely professionals in careers like Tech, Finance, or Entertainment (especially LA), and the events almost always vet before accepting people. This helps ensure a better noise to signal ratio that Meetup simply couldn't provide.
  - mmarian 4mo ago
    Interesting point, but I personally didn't find Meetup had a noise issue. You could filter for the right stuff, pretty easily. Also I don't see how Luma/Partiful will avoid this problem eventually.

mmarian 4mo ago

Luma doesn't do discoverability well unfortunately. Also very tech centric.

burkaman 4mo ago
I think it depends where you are. SF is all tech stuff but https://luma.com/chicago https://luma.com/chicago for example is mostly non-tech.
- mmarian 4mo ago
  Oh, didn't know that. My perspective is from the UK.

baggachipz 4mo ago

I had a good giggle when I opened their homepage and it looks exactly like the Performative-UI library[1] currently in the #1 spot.

burkaman 4mo ago
True, I think they were early to the trend though, it's looked like that basically since they launched: https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/

gulugawa 4mo ago

I've looked at Luma and have mixed thoughts. The UI is a massive improvement over Meetup. However, it seems to be following the standard VC funded business model of attracting users and pushing excessive monetization once users are dependent.