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See the new Meetups widget in the sidebar, and "Add new meetup" link under "Create new article" for logged in users.
Meetups posted there automatically generate Discussion posts as a temporary hack to provide meetup comment discussion - we really wanted to publish all the work we'd done so far and didn't have time to finish that feature.
Melbourne and Seattle are not "nearby" Waco (or Greenville, 45 min east of Dallas). Is that intended to say upcoming meetups (near in time rather than space)?
Edit: Also, I don't like the semiotics of the envelope icon for "reply". That suggests "private message" and is indeed how it is used elsewhere.
This'll work better when there are more meetups. The widget shows the (I think) six nearest meetups. The three extant meetups (at time of writing) are all in the set of six nearest meetups.
Or, you could just change it to the unconditionally accurate label "upcoming meetups".
Or the more informative "Nearest meetups".
It only shows three, and they're not the nearest. You've already labeled the page that "nearby meetups" links to as "Upcoming Events".
I'm sorry to keep hammering this, but ... :-/
It's currently showing all meetups that exist because only 3 exist. They are the nearest 3 of all meetups that exist.
The page it links to shows all meetups, not the few near ones the sidebar will show.
Let's keep going until we both understand - I'm often wrong, but don't understand how the current design is wrong.
I mentioned "only three" because a now-deleted part of your earlier comment said there were six.
In any case, I'm pretty sure that there are other scheduled meetups closer to me (Houston, Austin, NC, LA) -- is this only drawing from a list that are formatted or registered?
Also, it's disconcerting for Australia to be called "nearby", and only a little less so for it to count as "nearest", even if that's literally true for that set.
Only three meetups have been entered using the new system. Many other meetups have been announced using normal posts in the Discussion area, and summarised in promoted meetup summary posts (which was the official way to announce meetups a day ago).
There are many meetups not yet entered into the new system, and their coverage of the globe is pretty good. I think Australian meetups will disappear from your list in a few days.
There will be some users who really are geographically far from any organised meetups… perhaps they could resolve their disconcertion by organising a close meetup :)
Okay, I didn't know it was only listing meetups from a new entry system (rather than, say, all recurring meetups). Any reason Australia is above Seattle? (I know that's pretty minor as an issue.)
Very much agreed.