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Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups
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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what ever happened to good ol' goin to clubs, getting drunk, findin a girl, who is as drunk as u, having a good night, and never seein that girl again, mutually?
The reason that it can be true that 1+1 > 2 is that very peculiar nonzero value of the + operator
I will acknowledge that I jumped the gun on that FP - since Meetup is for group gatherings.
The two aren't mutually exlcusive, you closed-minded, puritanical clod!
The great thing about America is that you can patent anything. Brings a tear to my eye.
Anyone who organise a meet-up without needing the help of some crappy dot-com to doesn't deserve to have a social life! Fuck 'em!
They say: What are you interested in?
I say: Making fun of sad, pathetic losers with no lives! Where's the nearest meetup to me, so I can turn up with a huge banner saying "YOU SAD, PATHETIC LOSERS!"?
Time says: "A convenient, non-threatening way to connect to other people who share similar interests and live nearby."
I say: Non-threatening? Not if I have anything to do with it!
They say: Jobs. Meetup.com is looking for an exceptional Project Manager committed to helping our members succeed.
I say: Succeed at what? Having a life?
Christ, in my day, we had Usenet, 2600 and IRC, and we didn't fucking need no steenking meetup.com charging us 19 of your American dollars each time we wanted to get together and pretend that we weren't sad!
Bah! Flogging's too good for 'em!
D.
Is there anyone else on here who sees the need for a Firefox extention that filters out Slashdot cliches? Maybe it's just me.
I agree and I'm sure Google will only help their demise by adding a "Google Meetup" feature to be followed about 2 months later by Yahoo. Seems to be the trend as of late.
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...but there are some kinds of meetups of people for which it ended up being... inappropriate.
We used Meetup to get folks together and reunite local Delphi developers. The first couple of meet-and-greets at a coffee shop were pretty good.
That said, at least at the time, the venues listed for meeting at were sponsored by local businesses, and precious few of them were even passable for a meeting of geeks, especially when it became clear that folks wanted to come out and learn stuff.
The semi-biker-and-pool-hall that, through lack of folks knowing what it was, got voted in due to its convenient location. A quick survey of the hazy interior, and we realized the oops that we made.
There was, of course, no provision for getting the word out on a secondary venue this late in the game, so a quick trip to the convenience store for stationery (I always wondered who bought tape and pens at a store next to a bar :) and some rescue signage was put up for the stragglers.
Oh, wouldn't you know it - our second choice was closed.
My sympathies to the souls who got lost that day :)
So thanks, Meetup, for getting us together in the first place... I'm sorry we couldn't stay :)
-- Ritchie
Binary geeks can count to 1,023 on their fingers
Now fork over my royalties
Sorry, I hold the patent on fork(). Pay me.
you can't patent a gathering of like-minded people can you?
No, but if you're Tom DeLay, you can outlaw one.
1) Bait
2) Switch
3) Rinse
4) Repeat
5) ???
6) Profit ?
"I'm sure local meetup groups will really take off now! Next month maybe they'll finally add the "pay $5 and get kicked in the nuts" service we've all been clamoring for!"
Wow! That's almost as bad as subscribing to slashdot.
...and with the psychic group they don't even tell you where or when the meetup is.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...
So are they going to change their name to PayUp.com?