LJ in bed with meetup
Sep. 14th, 2006 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslWhy is LJ in bed with an evil dot-com failure?
MeetUp was popular up until they started charging group fees. This drove away the large majority of their community. I have nothing against group fees in principle, but MeetUp's fees overburdened organizers, and were high enough to mostly cause deadweight loss. MeetUp was also the only "respectable" website that I ever caught in the act of sharing my email with spammers, despite their privacy policy.
LJ should at least charge them for the advertising!
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Btw, I think it's great that LJ is promoting meet-up events. I just think they would do better to promote free standards ("free" as in freedom), instead of a proprietary site with lock-in powers.
MeetUp was popular up until they started charging group fees. This drove away the large majority of their community. I have nothing against group fees in principle, but MeetUp's fees overburdened organizers, and were high enough to mostly cause deadweight loss. MeetUp was also the only "respectable" website that I ever caught in the act of sharing my email with spammers, despite their privacy policy.
LJ should at least charge them for the advertising!
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Btw, I think it's great that LJ is promoting meet-up events. I just think they would do better to promote free standards ("free" as in freedom), instead of a proprietary site with lock-in powers.