| ▲ | tdeck 2 days ago | |
Meetup was fine 10+ years ago, but it's my go-to example of enshittification today. It feels like they're actively trying to kill it with every new change to the app / web experience. But despite that there are some good groups. | ||
| ▲ | margalabargala 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yes, but the good groups exist despite meetup, not because of them. | ||
| ▲ | jghn a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Meetups existed before meetup.com just fine. The site was there to provide a place for meetups to coordinate. Meetups aren't an artifact of the site. | ||
| ▲ | gulugawa 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It's also worth noting that sometimes, groups are on Meetup because it is one of the least bad options. I still host board game events on Meetup, although I'm hoping to switch to my open source alternative soon. I think the other commercial options such as Discord and Facebook are worse, and people have gotten used to Meetup. | ||