[rhizome]

You make me wonder if Eventbrite might be that solution, do they not have groups?

Still, a better one might exist, and since there's no friendsters on Meetup (tmk) switching costs are lower if people only need to create an account and join a group (i.e. where Meetup pretty much stopped developing).

[brianbreslin]

A few reasons we haven't left eventbrite for our own woocommerce or other based platform for ticketing (the events calendar pro plugin has some for wordpress): check-ins for events. None of the other solutions have as streamlined of a system or as many simple embeddable integrations for the ticket sales.

[oicu812]

No, they don't have groups and each meeting on Eventbrite is a separate event, which makes it difficult to see past meetings.

[brianbreslin]

It also makes it difficult to auto-re-invite everyone to the new event. Or make event series.