With Meetup’s absurd pricing changes (https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges), all efforts in building group, growing, and nurturing members will become a serious loss for group organizers. I wrote this post to analyze why this absurd pricing will diminish meetup's network effects.
https://medium.com/explara/meetups-network-effect-will-diminish-dff139b43d9c