@hrishio I agree with this - http://meetup.com is terrible and I'm sure somebody can do a better job. @dmitrigrabov
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@dmitrigrabov From the attendees perspective: I curate events by haphazardly joining groups. Not only does meetup send an email for almost1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@dmitrigrabov every event, but my email is placed on 10s of mailing lists. I receive 30+ emails a day in my spam.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@dmitrigrabov And the reality is that I actually see no events this way: why not send me a nicely formatted weekly email?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@dmitrigrabov Also, they've allowed organisers far too much control with the onboarding into a meetup group.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@dmitrigrabov Multiple times I've been asked to introduce myself with 5+ questions. And it's not like anybody really reads what you write1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@dmitrigrabov or that any decent community comes from this. If you created registration UX like this for a website you'd be laughed at.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@dmitrigrabov So in short: discovery = shit and spammy; meetup onboarding = pointless and hard-work; and the UX is in general pretty bad.
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@dmitrigrabov I reckon if you focus on the organisers, and just keep the attendee side super simple you will create something great.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 2 more replies
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