opt into notification for IRL meetups

November 4, 2012 5:02 PM

Feature request: opt-in email or MeMail when a meetup in your city is proposed.

I visit MeFi daily but have recently missed a discussion on a meetup in my city.

Can we have an opt-in feature where we list our city/town/state/country and can be emailed or memailed when a proposal for a meetup hits the IRL site?

posted by gen to Feature Requests at 5:02 PM (13 comments total)

Have you seen this?
posted by brainmouse at 5:06 PM on November 4, 2012

That already exists, doesn't it?
posted by tzikeh at 5:08 PM on November 4, 2012

ooh! I hadn't. I don't normally want to post specifics of my location to the public web...
posted by gen at 5:09 PM on November 4, 2012

Your location appears to already be set in your profile, you shouldn't need to change anything there.
posted by brainmouse at 5:11 PM on November 4, 2012

Ok, I see this feature keeps my privacy pretty well-respected.

Mods, feel free to close this discussion.
posted by gen at 5:11 PM on November 4, 2012

This might be something we could use Twilio for (it's a telephony API company). We could enable SMS optionally when something is first set up and the night before/morning of the event, so you get a more prominent alert on your phone.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:12 PM on November 4, 2012

mathowie: sounds quite cool. Twilio is primarily US-based but they are expanding rapidly globally.
posted by gen at 5:15 PM on November 4, 2012

I'd just as soon have a caldav URL.
posted by pwnguin at 6:52 PM on November 4, 2012

This could also be done with IFTTT. For example, I get a text every time there is a GitHub drinkup in SF. Someone just needs to make a recipe for their city (and this wont require including a location in ones mefi profile).
posted by special-k at 7:05 PM on November 4, 2012

Misread that as Twilio being a "telepathy API company" which *would* make it pretty good for alerting folks to this sort of thing without having to broadcast it on the internet.
posted by maryr at 7:40 PM on November 4, 2012 [1 favorite]

> I'd just as soon have a caldav URL.

One for all of Oregon. There are ical links for every region actually. See here for Portland's.

Also the MyIrl page lets you get an ical/rss feed for event's you've RSVPed to as well.
posted by mrzarquon at 9:36 PM on November 4, 2012

I can confirm that having just set my IRL to Austin, I got a memail about an event in Austin a day or two later. I didn't have to opt in to anything. It was wonderful and unexpected!
posted by OnTheLastCastle at 10:17 PM on November 4, 2012

mrzarquon: "Also the MyIrl page lets you get an ical/rss feed for event's you've RSVPed to as well."

Excellent...
posted by pwnguin at 9:10 AM on November 5, 2012