Kommunity
After 2 years of organizing on meetup Toronto Bladers, I will be moving to a new platform known as Kommunity.
All trail events for distance currently posted on meetup will be moving to Kommunity. On meetup I will still organize minor events for everyone, mostly for fixed locations such as race tracks, parks, slalom and similar.
Event types
Kommunity will be to organize intermediate and advanced levels events for the guys that do inline skating who have demonstrated such levels of skill.
Guys only
In the past a lot of effort was put into being all inclusive with females for the inline skating events on meetup. However the outcome was not what was expected and therefore, events on Kommunity will be specific for men.
- Over 80% of the RSVP's no shows on meetup were from females who don't even change their RSVP to let us know that they can't make it.
- 50% of female participation in the past was more interested in meeting men than actually skating. (There are groups for dating and boot calls. We are in it for skating. No means NO).
- There are female exclusive groups out there for females. In the name of equality, there should not be a problem with a group just for men.
- And finally, Inline skating is a sport. Just like any other sport such , but not limited to boxing, MMA, martial arts, football, soccer, etc, there are no coed events and or males vs females events.
About Kommunity
As a platform Kommunity brings several advantages in regards to meetup.
- Mobile app without trackers (at the moment of this writing)
- Privacy oriented mobile app.
- Private profiles
- Private events
- Event text formatting and embedded links
- Member follower options
- Event participant approval list
- Integration with at least 7 social media platforms
- Unlimited RSVPs, always free
- Wait listing option
- Upload videos, slides and photos
- Create talks and tutorials about the activity
- Better disclaimers and waiver system upon joining group
- Custom questioners
- Member invitation options (email, link, etc)
- Zoom integration
- Tag options
- Chat history of the group chat platform, is private and under the control of the same group and is removable at any time.
Reasons to move away meetup
If a quick research about meetup, their website, app problems, interfaces and at times rude technical support is not reason enough, in comparison with Kommunity, the later offers several advantages starting by not being paid.
The bladers group
- Unfortunately management of the group is very restrictive to one person only
- Some features are not available to all organizers
- The Group has not been updated in almost a decade
- Too many inactive organizers that have not skated for months or years or have given up inline skating.
- Too much catfish members that only RSVP to mess with the event
- Too many bots pretending to be members
- Too many members that never login or even subscribe to the group notices
- Too many members that are not even in Canada but actually live in other countries and never join any event
- Main organizer has never addressed any of these issues.