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Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups

Posted by timothy on from the capitalist-roaders dept.

jalefkowit writes "It was nice while it lasted... massively popular social-organizing service Meetup.com has announced that from here on out, they will be charging a $19/month fee to the designated organizer of each Meetup registered with the service. Regular users (those other than meetup organizers) can continue to use it free of charge, though they suggest that some organizers may wish to split the cost with their members. Users who paid for the Meetup+ service get the fees waived for one group of their choice (if they're not organizers, they can pass this benefit on to someone who is). Here's more information about the move and why they made it."

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  1. 2004 called. by Tackhead · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    They want their candidates back.

    All of 'em. Dean, Kerry, Bush, Peroutka, hell, fucking Robert Anton Wilson from the Guns and Dope Party.

    Folks, the election's over. We all knew meetups were just excuses for horny overstressed campaign workers to explain why they woke up with who the fuck is that and what's she doing in my bed? (She's asking herself the very same thing, that's what.)

  2. Free Meetups end Meetup.com by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    the end is near for meetup.com

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    94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
  3. Yawn by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Totally YAWN.

    -d

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    "Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
  4. See ya, meetup by British · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I remember the Livejournal meetups. The very last one i went to was a pure f'in sausagefest. Only one female showed up. The rest consisted of a bunch of guys who didn't look like they could get a date either(okay, one was married).

    This was after me and somebody waited around 2 hours looking for others. After everyone gathered, I realized the oddity that the meetup mainly consisted of mails, from a userbase that was 60% female. Got up and left after 15 minutes and never came back.

    I saw pictures for subsequent lj meetups, and they looked like weight watchers meetings, sorry to say.

    Meetup.com has got to have the worst interface for a website I've seen. It seems to involve several links just to get to your area code's page of events. I signed up for about 10-13 meetups, and just about all of them were cancelled due to lack of interest.

    Countdown to fuckedcompany in 3...2..1...