[vpontis]

Hi! I'm a founder of lu.ma which a lot of Meetup hosts have migrated to in the past year. We're kind of a mix between Meetup + Eventbrite. You can see some tech events we've featured here — lu.ma/explore

I'd love to see if I can help you get your community up and running again. Feel free to reach out - [e-mail]

In terms of funding / sponsorships, I think it's certainly harder than the market a few years ago since there is just less free money for tech / startups, but we've seen a lot of new tech communities thrive. Also, a lot of people are willing to pay to attend events!

[Rescis]

The lack of an easily accessible search function/option to select a city (Seattle) other than SF/NYC/London/Paris/Dubai was a little annoying to me, and then the login gate when I try to click explore again was a little frustrating.

[vpontis]

Thanks for that feedback! We are still pretty early on discovery so we don't support cities other than the cities listed there for public discovery.

We do have many events happening in Seattle tho so we should add discovery there in the next couple months .

[em-bee]

this looks great, as does meetabit.com, mentioned in another post. the problem is that having so many different sites makes it difficult to find events in one location.

i think it would be good to consider a protocol to exchange event information so that a visitor can look up events from all these different meetup sites on one place. an aggregator or something the way how mastodon shares channels between servers.