The nearby meetups feature is a great idea, but the current implementation creates a new challenge: All regular meetups are now making posts every time they have a meetup. This is more work for them, but more importantly, it’s serious clutter on the discussion page.
Possible solutions:
1) Implement a calendar that can handle repeat events.
2) Add an option on the Add New Meetup tab which would allow users to either create a new post (what it does right now) or to link to another url (old post or wiki page). This would at least handle the clutter problem.
1 is planned but unscheduled, and the discussion area post was a quick hack to give us comment discussion for meetups—our first implementation didn’t support comments on meetups at all. … which is to say, I agree, and we plan to fix it. We figured that there are some advantages in the new system that made it worth publishing.
The nearby meetups feature is a great idea, but the current implementation creates a new challenge: All regular meetups are now making posts every time they have a meetup. This is more work for them, but more importantly, it’s serious clutter on the discussion page.
Possible solutions: 1) Implement a calendar that can handle repeat events. 2) Add an option on the Add New Meetup tab which would allow users to either create a new post (what it does right now) or to link to another url (old post or wiki page). This would at least handle the clutter problem.
1 is planned but unscheduled, and the discussion area post was a quick hack to give us comment discussion for meetups—our first implementation didn’t support comments on meetups at all.
… which is to say, I agree, and we plan to fix it. We figured that there are some advantages in the new system that made it worth publishing.