> While true, a side effect of this is that groups that aren't active anymore eventually get deisted, because nobody wants to pay Meetup's prices to keep a dead group online. Once you get discovery up and running, I'd be curious to see how cluttered the website gets with inactive groups, especially over time.

Yeah, that would be interesting to see! If a free option was always available then I'd assume the amount of groups dying would be fewer.

> Genuinely curious what you think the marketing issue here is. If anything, I think they've cornered a term pretty well.

Yep, I think the term is great for what the platform is! But sorry, what I meant was that it limits the scope of events that people associate with them (which I guess is fine if that's all they want to focus on). I associate it with clubs and actual meetups (tech and the like) - I wouldn't expect to find a page for a weekend vegetable market there for example. When I'm looking for things to do, I want to see every type of event/activity rather than just clubs etc.

Funnily enough, my mother (having never used Meetup) thought Meetup was a dating site. Perhaps that was their problem all along, haha.