{"id":10347,"date":"2022-04-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2022-04-05T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:10:39","slug":"recording-latest-meetup-engineering-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/recording-latest-meetup-engineering-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording: The Latest from Meetup Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Meetup engineering team shares the latest news on our platform enhancements in this Meetup Live community update recording. Watch Rajib Ahmed, Meetup\u2019s Chief Technology Officer &amp; Chief Product Officer; Annyce Davis, VP of Engineering; Samantha Schwartz, Engineering Manager; and Eujin Measson, Director of Program Management &amp; Ops, for a discussion on the technology Meetup is using, experiments we are running, and plans for improving our native apps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Recording: The Latest from Meetup Engineering\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhyTsMvLLH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-timestamps\">Timestamps: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Intro (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rhyTsMvLLH8?t=118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1:58<\/a>)<\/li><li>Engineering Update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rhyTsMvLLH8?t=265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4:25<\/a>)<\/li><li>Search &amp; Neighborhoods (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rhyTsMvLLH8?t=634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10:34<\/a>)<\/li><li>Apps Update (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rhyTsMvLLH8?t=970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">16:10<\/a>)<ul><li>If you\u2019re interested in testing out the Organizer App (Beta) click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/88VZVEwDw5QGYU9U9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Q&amp;A (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rhyTsMvLLH8?t=1298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">21:38<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-top-q-a-questions\">Top Q&amp;A Questions: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Can you speak to any improvements needed\/requested\/planned for search in relation to online events?<ul><li><em>Eujin:<\/em> Thank you for the question. We do get a lot of requests based on how we should change online events versus real-life events. Right now there&#8217;s the ability to filter on those when you do a search query on Meetup. I know I spoke a lot about neighborhoods which is mostly about in real life but in general, we are trying to make them both differentiated.  <\/li><li><em>Rajib: <\/em>One thing I&#8217;ll add to what Eujin just said is, that we&#8217;re looking deeply into the categories and how online versus in real life (IRL) impact that, which will help. For example, hiking &#8212; in-person hiking events &#8212; will be ranked higher than if you were talking about an online class for cooking. So there are many different things that factor into our relevancy and matching that we&#8217;re looking into and those are happening for online events.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Would Meetup consider refining its email notification system for new members?<ul><li><em>Annyce:<\/em> Yes, Meetup is not only considering it, we are working on implementing it. We do acknowledge that some members receive more than the ideal amount of emails. So we&#8217;re working on a project right now it&#8217;s called global frequency capping. What does that really mean? We&#8217;re going to look at a member&#8217;s behavior on our platform. Thinks like whether or not they&#8217;ve been opening emails recently, how they&#8217;re engaging with push notifications, etc. to determine the appropriate frequency to send them these outreach emails. So yes, we&#8217;re going to be considering it. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>What is the strategy for a separate app for organizers?<ul><li><em>Annyce:<\/em> That&#8217;s a great question, we did a lot of research on this to try to determine what made the most sense, having a separate piece attached to the member app as we&#8217;re calling it, or a completely separate organizer app. The best way to think about this is maybe think about Uber, there&#8217;s an app for drivers and there&#8217;s an app for riders. It&#8217;s the same with AirBnB. The primary advantage is that we can move very quickly by having the app separated, as you heard from Sam. This is like a modified cross-platform solution, and we weren&#8217;t able to do the same thing quickly on the member app additionally. If I&#8217;m a member-only then why would I be interested in having a bulky app downloaded, that has all of this extra functionality specific for an organizer. 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