Where have I been? August 15, 2013 5:22 PM Subscribe
A small feature request for IRL: a (private if necessary) list of meetups you have marked as having attended.
I've often commented in meetup threads I never attended and almost definitely attended meetups that I only clicked "attending" on and never commented in. In fact I'm not sure if we even have a way of finding out if the latter scenario ever happened without bugging the mods.
I know a lot of people have legit privacy concerns, so it doesn't necessarily have to be a publicly-accessible list. It can just be visible to the user themselves. Or maybe you could choose if the list is accessible to everyone, logged-in users only, or totally private.
I think it would be pretty cool to check out someone's profile after a meetup and be all "hey you were at that thing I was at! We've met before!"
I've often commented in meetup threads I never attended and almost definitely attended meetups that I only clicked "attending" on and never commented in. In fact I'm not sure if we even have a way of finding out if the latter scenario ever happened without bugging the mods.
I know a lot of people have legit privacy concerns, so it doesn't necessarily have to be a publicly-accessible list. It can just be visible to the user themselves. Or maybe you could choose if the list is accessible to everyone, logged-in users only, or totally private.
I think it would be pretty cool to check out someone's profile after a meetup and be all "hey you were at that thing I was at! We've met before!"
Asked and answered! Hooray!
posted by griphus at 5:43 PM on August 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by griphus at 5:43 PM on August 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
I didn't even know we had this feature that I also always wanted until pb mentioned it's always been there, so yay!
pb is now fulfilling feature requests before we ask for them!
posted by anotherpanacea at 5:54 PM on August 15, 2013 [7 favorites]
pb is now fulfilling feature requests before we ask for them!
posted by anotherpanacea at 5:54 PM on August 15, 2013 [7 favorites]
he has become unstuck in time
posted by elizardbits at 6:02 PM on August 15, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by elizardbits at 6:02 PM on August 15, 2013 [4 favorites]
Wow, I've attended 17 meetups in the past ~3 years (since IRL)? I'd have guessed half as many.
posted by zennie at 6:07 PM on August 15, 2013
posted by zennie at 6:07 PM on August 15, 2013
pb is a category 5 kaiju.
posted by elizardbits at 6:09 PM on August 15, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by elizardbits at 6:09 PM on August 15, 2013 [3 favorites]
If pb could really time travel, he'd update my My IRL to include all the meetups I went to, but got too drunk to remember attending.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 7:41 PM on August 15, 2013
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 7:41 PM on August 15, 2013
Up next, Counterfactual Subjunctive MyIRL: meetups you didn't attend but should have, would have, or could have.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 8:40 PM on August 15, 2013
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 8:40 PM on August 15, 2013
It doesn't list all of them! Mine only goes back to October of 2012 or so.
We'll take a look at that. We probably need to add a system for paging back. We don't have that yet.
posted by pb (staff) at 8:42 PM on August 15, 2013
We'll take a look at that. We probably need to add a system for paging back. We don't have that yet.
posted by pb (staff) at 8:42 PM on August 15, 2013
zennie: Wow, I've attended 17 meetups in the past ~3 years (since IRL)? I'd have guessed half as many.
It lists meetups you marked "Maybe" as far as I can tell. Maybe that's why?
posted by Rock Steady at 6:06 AM on August 16, 2013
It lists meetups you marked "Maybe" as far as I can tell. Maybe that's why?
posted by Rock Steady at 6:06 AM on August 16, 2013
Man, I maybe'd and missed some cool meetups. But at least the meetups I made it to outnumber those. :-)
posted by EvaDestruction at 6:24 AM on August 16, 2013
posted by EvaDestruction at 6:24 AM on August 16, 2013
You're in luck! We already built that, it's in the My IRL tab on the front page of the site.
Okay, sure, very nice and all. But now I need a listing of the IRL events I should have gone to if I weren't such a hermit and lazy ass. There should be check-boxes to turn on/off "head-shaking reproach" and "moderate taunting" list modes.
posted by aught at 6:45 AM on August 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
Okay, sure, very nice and all. But now I need a listing of the IRL events I should have gone to if I weren't such a hermit and lazy ass. There should be check-boxes to turn on/off "head-shaking reproach" and "moderate taunting" list modes.
posted by aught at 6:45 AM on August 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
he has become unstuck in time
He can only hope that the next pony...will be the pony home.
QUANTUM PEEB
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:27 AM on August 16, 2013 [4 favorites]
He can only hope that the next pony...will be the pony home.
QUANTUM PEEB
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:27 AM on August 16, 2013 [4 favorites]
oh boy.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:36 AM on August 16, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by pb (staff) at 7:36 AM on August 16, 2013 [3 favorites]
Can I be Ziggy?
posted by Rock Steady at 7:37 AM on August 16, 2013
posted by Rock Steady at 7:37 AM on August 16, 2013
It lists meetups you marked "Maybe" as far as I can tell. Maybe that's why?
That's true, but I skipped those as I counted.
posted by zennie at 7:57 AM on August 16, 2013
That's true, but I skipped those as I counted.
posted by zennie at 7:57 AM on August 16, 2013
the young rope-rider, I just added simple paging to the bottom of the page. So if you have more than 50 events in My IRL you can go back and forth to see them all.
posted by pb (staff) at 12:51 PM on August 16, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 12:51 PM on August 16, 2013
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I didn't even know we had this feature that I also always wanted until pb mentioned it's always been there, so yay!
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:36 PM on August 15, 2013 [8 favorites]