Re: [UG-ADMINS] Meetup.com & Custom Domain changes

I thought I saw something within the site config to allow you to have a
"vanity" domain as they call it.


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Patrick Schwisow <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm kind of pissed at meetup.com for making that change but not enough to
> have done anything about it.  I don't really see what they gain by it other
> than irritated organizers.
>
> One important thing to note.  If you unset your custom domain, you will not
> be able to re-enable it later, so you'll always need to have a host that
> sends redirects to the correct pages on meetup.com.
>
> -Patrick
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Brian Moon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Like Keith says, its better to spend your time working on meetings and
> the
> > group than working on the web site. If you have someone(s) that will
> > dedicate to that, then sure, sounds great. But, we barely have time to
> > organize speakers and are lucky our company sponsors things and lets us
> use
> > the office manager to organize the events. Taking the time to build a web
> > site for it would only take away from the events.
> >
> >
> > Brian Moon
> > Sr. Director of Engineering
> > ------------------------------
> > When you care enough to spend the very least.
> > http://dealnews.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/22/13 8:35 AM, D Keith Casey Jr wrote:
> >
> >> I own AustinPHP.net and DCPHP.net and just direct to the meetup pages. I
> >> just use an index.php with a header redirect to the right page. :)
> >>
> >> Unless you have someone dedicated to the CMS, I'd recommend against it.
> >> We had one for DCPHP for years and it was pretty good if someone
> >> remembered to add the monthly meeting.
> >>
> >> kc
> >>
> >> On 7/22/13 9:11 AM, Joe Ferguson wrote:
> >>
> >>> My Co-Organizer, David and I inherited MemphisPHP last year and it has
> >>> always used a custom domain (memphisphp.org) to point to our
> >>> meetup.compage (
> >>> meetup.com/memphisphp). Not long ago Meetup.com changed how their
> custom
> >>> domain feature worked and now all custom domains forward to
> >>> meetup.cominstead of staying on the custom domain.
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering how everyone else that is using Meetup.com is handling
> >>> this. Did this affect you at all? I think I'm leaning towards putting
> our
> >>> base domain on a CMS and then using the Meetup.com API to pull in
> events.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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