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I still use meetup, though it is a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to meeting people. Groups tend to either be small enough that it's a challenge to get around how tight knit the dynamics are or they're huge with mostly inactive members and almost never the same people event to event. I certainly haven't used meetup as much since the pandemic began as virtual events don't have a lot of appeal to me personally.

As per discord, it can be a quite nice tool for building communities, however there's a lack of locality in almost all of the servers I've interacted with, so discord ends up serving a different purpose IMO.