Still working on radius.to [1] - a Meetup.com alternative.

I relaunched it on HN [2] just over a month ago after working on features over the last year or so and landing a ton of useful feedback, which I've mostly now acted on. Could and should probably do more marketing so that's my short term focus.

Likely the next phase of work I'll be exploring is potentially open sourcing and federation - super excited about this but it'll likely need a fair bit of research and planning.

[1] https://www.radius.to/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777539

> would like if the member map defaulted to my location

> Profile should have an edit button versus totally separate pages for profile and edit profile

> Custom social links would be nice, would love to have my github there

Great suggestions; consider these done (soon!).

I do need to fix the open in sidebar button - problem is the users are paginated to avoid loading them all at once so if they're not in the loaded list, this issue happens - need to find a better way around this. Thanks for flagging though!

Btw, anything in particular you'd like to see in a self-hosted version? Would you be using it for an individual group, or want to host multiple groups?

I think multiple groups would be nice. I thought of hosting meetings for a book club, music nights, DnD/DSA, Critical Mass or Birthday and Linux Install Partys. Some privat, some public.

The Pro tier for organisers is all I have planned at the moment, for large groups or organisers who want more features. No plans for any ads.

Not yet! I'm very interested in both, though - something I'm looking into. Stay tuned!

Yeah, I've had a bunch of recruitment agencies and similar companies try to create groups - I'm mostly managing to flag those and keep them down with a combination of auto/manual moderation.

Regarding the messages - that's one reason I've opted not to have user-to-user DMs. You can DM organisers of a group, but all messaging outside that is public (on activities and groups for example).

Sounds pretty promising, good luck. You could consider a reputation system too if you haven't got one already.

Thanks! Yeah that's on the horizon! I'm fondly reminded of the old vBulletin-style reputation squares [1] when I think of this - might be interesting to add something like that.

[1] https://www.theadminzone.com/resources/post-reputation-in-po...

> I signed up and immediately pinned me in the UK

Thanks for the feedback! Did you by any chance set your location to London on sign-up? If you check the groups and activities page filter there are 5-100km distance filters.

nope, I just created a user with google single sign on I believe.

Thanks for the report! Should be fixed now :)

> works really, really well with LLMs!

..and humans too! But yes, completely agree - if you stick with Rails' conventions, at least!

Thanks! Yes, that's planned- a reputation score of some sort would be fairly easy to add, I think.

Can you make a sweet spot for fansionably late for extra points?

An actual good idea! I'm keeping a note of this, thanks!