BS bought Meetup.com and enshittified…
BS bought Meetup.com and enshittified it to the point of uselessness almost immediately. Meetup's already fairly aggressive approach to paywalling basic event information went absolutely nuclear and now you can't click anywhere on Meetup.com without the SUBSCRIBE TO CONTINUE BREATHING popup appearing, which you can't click away but have to refresh the page. Paywalling information about the gender and age of attendees might look like a neat way to tax creeps who want to use Meetup as a dating platform, but in fact it taxes women who want to scope out the likely safety of an event's vibe ahead of time. And so on. This is BS's MO. It might get VCs hard and make the line go up, but it wrecks the actual product or service. Remember when those mattered? Pepperidge Farm remembers.








