Re: [UG-ADMINS] Next Gen UGs and Social Networks

On Thu, April 16, 2009 4:38 pm, Hans Zaunere wrote: > -- where does meetup.com fit in? observed advantages/disadvantages? Meetup.com is fine for non-techies to organize, but there are some fundamental problems: 1. Price-point. For what you pay a month, you could get a decent webhost with some kind of panel and get the same functionality, with custom graphics. 2. Slow. 3. Inflexible. Some of this has been corrected over time, but there are still a lot of brittle "this is how Meetup works" mis-features that can't be worked around. 4. Ghost-town There are a lot of meetup groups that look active, until you try to actually go to a meeting or interact with its members... Then you find out that it hasn't really existed for a year or so. -- Some people ask for gifts here. I just want you to buy an Indie CD for yourself: http://cdbaby.com/search/from/lynch