[cookiengineer]

Some company took over my meetup because I missed a payment. Once, aka for a single month. For a meetup that I ran since around 2013.

Now they use the meetup to make advertisements for their own consultation services, and they have the identical talk under a different name for now the 20th+ time, with the same speaker for years.

Everybody from the old scene left the meetup and realized that it's gone to shit, but they somehow manage to catfish still a lot of people with this strategy.

No idea why they keep doing this, and I stopped caring. They do this with all sorts of programming language related meetups, and it's always the same talk in one form or the other, and they do this all over Germany. It's ridiculous.

If you want to google them: "thinktecture meetup" and you'll find yourself in groundhog day.