I'm often thinking about building a better Meetup, it's so expensive for organizers these days. But then I acknowledge the network effects and I give up. And they own Eventbrite too! Savvy people.

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burkaman 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I see a lot of people using 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.

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baggachipz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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/

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mmarian 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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burkaman 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think it depends where you are. SF is all tech stuff but https://luma.com/chicago for example is mostly non-tech.

	▲	mmarian 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, didn't know that. My perspective is from the UK.

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alephnerd 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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mmarian 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Interesting. Luma is getting traction in London. Not so much outside.

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alephnerd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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bsimpson 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Partiful feels like it has replaced Facebook Events, Meetup, and the other formerly-popular hubs for in-person event planning.

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mmarian 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Hmm, didn't know of Partiful. Quick look at landing page, seems more geared to parties and more social media-y? Meetup's event listing was good as it was; well, before they started charging for you to even see who's attending.

	▲	bsimpson 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		In NY + SF, it's used for anything you might want to attend that would be organized by an individual - parties, meetups, local events, etc.

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baron816 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn’t this just Luma?

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	▲	mmarian 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		See reply I just made in other thread.