We haven’t had much chance to try out the new meetup functionality on lesserwrong.com yet, but we really need it to work. This is our community’s primary source of new blood, and it is super important for that to be all set before the migration happens.
I agree that meetup functionality is one of the core features of the site; it just so happened that it was the last core feature that we built, and so hasn’t had as much time to be polished as the others.
(For some context on our decision-making process, we thought that the site shouldn’t be brought out of beta until we had all of the core features that current LW has, but also that we should bring it out of beta as soon as possible, and continue making improvements at the lesswrong.com domain.)
I agree that meetup functionality is one of the core features of the site; it just so happened that it was the last core feature that we built, and so hasn’t had as much time to be polished as the others.
(For some context on our decision-making process, we thought that the site shouldn’t be brought out of beta until we had all of the core features that current LW has, but also that we should bring it out of beta as soon as possible, and continue making improvements at the lesswrong.com domain.)