Kommunity

After 2 years of organizing on meetup Toronto Bladers, in 2021 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.

About Kommunity

As a platform Kommunity brings several advantages in comparison to meetup.

It is free!
Mobile app without trackers (at the moment of this writing)
Privacy oriented mobile app.
Private profiles
Private events
Electronic waivers upon registration
Event text formatting and embedded links
Member follower options
Event participant approval list
Integration with at least 7 social media platforms
Free choice of independent chat 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 group management 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 many 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 female accounts that are actually bots just to try to attract men
Too many members that are not even in Canada but actually live in other countries and never join any event
Too many members that block messages from organizers
Main organizer has never addressed any of these issues
Main organizer has given up skating and moved to a different sport and has not done maintenance to the group
Rude meetup tech support
Mobile app full of trackers and privacy invasive features
Permanent online chat history
Discriminatory methods done by some meetup administrators
Paid service
Poor social media integration
others...

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.

Private chat

The new platform will run with an existing private chat platform which will be filled by invitation only. We use signal-app only and for intermediate and advanced inline skaters.

Invitation 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 invite only having in the the following:

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 and hook up rather than actually skating. (The group is for skating, not dating. No means NO).
Most female skaters that have shown up for events, are actually beginners by any standard even without including ICP. This group is not for beginners of any gender.
There are female exclusive groups out there for females. In the name of equality, there should not be a problem with with this group.