joe_91

Same.... I'll install it in a few months when all the major security bugs have been found and patched!

Tell that to the thousands of apps/sides out there which rely on scraped data ;) (Including all search engines/LLMs/price comparison sites etc)

True, but also need to know the basics well of what constitutes good code and how it should scale vs just working code. Too many people relying on LLMs to produce stuff which just about works but give users a terrible experience as it bearly works.

Nice concept. I've definitely seen this play out in practice.

A lot of sites aren't impossible to scrape, but they're steadily getting more expensive. We're having to lean more on residential proxies, headless browsers etc just to get the same data that used to be straightforward...

Actually as someone who is over 225lbs and only going up in weight monthly I don't think its fair to presume things about others like that....

As another commenter said - its simple, not easy...

Until they find out that there are unintended side effects...

Better off just exercising and eating as clean as you can!

Instead of focusing solely on the "market boom" and technological advancements, we should be having a serious conversation about the societal implications and the long-term sustainability of this scraping free-for-all.

The "higher stakes" mentioned aren't just about cost and effort; they're about the potential erosion of online privacy, the destabilization of websites reliant on ad revenue, and the ethical responsibility of data practitioners.

It would be interesting to explore ways of profit sharing to cover loss of ad revenue, better caching to reduce the cost on websites themselves, and simple ways to opt in or opt out of personal information being used online!

If only the rest of the western world could do this imagine how much better it could be to live in large cities...

Meetup really could be a 10x better platform. As someone who's run a group on it having to pay to then put in the work to run a group on top of that is just crazy.

They could have monetised the platform in so many other different ways which could have helped the community instead of just going for the easy pickings of charging the event organisers.

Why not charge a percentage on top of any payments take? Create/integrate with a room booking system in cities to help organisers book? (and take a fee on this)

The only thing Meetup does well is discovery - the domain name is amazing for the type of site it is and it is easy enough to search for groups in your city and find what you want. Everything else is pretty terrible.

I don't know how you could justify having more than 3 dev's working on this site the way it is at the moment. It just screams lazy...

Travel between countries in Europe is improving every year too. Next week I'll be traveling from Bordeaux to Berlin (over 1,600km) - it's faster than the car (16 hours by car vs 12 hours by train), and cheaper than flying, in the summer at least (150 euro by train, vs 300 euro by plane - booking 6 weeks before).

That will improve next year too with the direct Paris Berlin train that should only take 7 hours.