Harold K.

This site is new, but a great replacement for Meetup. All the features that used to be on Meetup are there, plus some cool new ones. The only downsides are 1) it's new so there's not a lot of users to find your group and 2) it's a little clunky in places, but it keeps getting better as it's further developed.

Organizers pay for the service. Meetup consistently ignores complaints from organizers and rolled out a half-baked redesign missing some major features that organized organizers relied upon... such as marking no shows on attendance and pinning a precise location on the map. The latter is especially critical for groups that don't meet at a place with an address, such as a trail head for a hike, a put-in for a kayaking event, etc.