Yeah, I've had a bunch of recruitment agencies and similar companies try to create groups - I'm mostly managing to flag those and keep them down with a combination of auto/manual moderation.

Regarding the messages - that's one reason I've opted not to have user-to-user DMs. You can DM organisers of a group, but all messaging outside that is public (on activities and groups for example).

Sounds pretty promising, good luck. You could consider a reputation system too if you haven't got one already.

> works really, really well with LLMs!

..and humans too! But yes, completely agree - if you stick with Rails' conventions, at least!

Thanks for the report! Should be fixed now :)

> I signed up and immediately pinned me in the UK

Thanks for the feedback! Did you by any chance set your location to London on sign-up? If you check the groups and activities page filter there are 5-100km distance filters.

Thanks! Yes, that's planned- a reputation score of some sort would be fairly easy to add, I think.

Thanks for the great feedback - much of which I agree with! If you think the UI is bad now, you should have seen it in 2024 :)

For context, I think many of the decisions I've taken have been due to a lack of activity to surface. I completely agree that there needs to be an /events page, but it doesn't make sense with the low volume of events right now (IMO, at least).

Fair points on the landing and groups page - I've tried to address some of those issues tonight.

> you could have a + button with a modal to draft it and only hit me with the login wall when I try to post.

Not something I'd considered, to be honest! I usually get annoyed when I fill out a form only to find I need to sign up to finish the process - maybe others prefer that? I've gone and added that for groups and activities (well, when my CI finishes). Events are dependent on a group (for now at least), so that's a task for tomorrow, I think. Thanks for this suggestion!

Yeah, early days still - mostly choosing to surface everything on the main feed until we have enough users/groups/events to be able to have city-specific pages, etc.

You can still filter by nearby, category, etc though!

Thank you! :)

Mostly due to the cold start/dead platform problem - I do plan on listing them more prominently but the critical mass isn't quite there yet, hence the focus on activities for now!

That matters for discovery, but lots of event organizers and hosts just need a consistent, simple UX for event signups, sharing details to attendees, and managing updates/invites/changes.

If they have a mostly consistent or invite-only set of attendees, the network effects don’t matter. Imagine a Boy Scout troop, Alcoholics Anonymous, pub trivia, blood drives, local alumni association, churches, user groups.

Many businesses have this problem but don’t use Facebook or discord because of the login wall and unprofessional vibes. They would pay for a real tool that makes consistent event/group hosting easy. IMO you’re getting interest/engagement in spite of the critical feedback because people who regularly hosts events need that

> but don’t use Facebook or discord because of the login wall and unprofessional vibes

Just to clarify, your improvement on the login wall is the suggestion you made earlier to allow forms to be filled out before login/sign-up, right? I've done this for groups [1] and activities [2].

[1] https://radius.to/groups/new

[2] https://radius.to/activities/new

I'll add that to the list of use cases!