The migration playbook
How to move your group off Meetup
No magic button — but a clear path. Here's how organizers actually bring their community across, step by step.
The truth up front: you won't move all of them, and you don't need to. A good migration brings your active core — the people who actually show up. The dormant names fall away; your real community follows.
The move, step by step
- 1
Bring your co-organizers with you
A move only sticks when the people who run the group agree on it. Align your co-organizers first and decide together — it's the step most migrations skip and regret.
- 2
Pick a cutover date
Set a real date and move toward it. Running two platforms forever kills momentum — choose the day your group's home becomes gæther, and tell everyone.
- 3
Rebuild your group on gæther
First, sign up to gæther if you haven't — then create your group: name, description, the things you care about, who it's for. Turn on your join link and you're ready: one tap to join, no app to install.
Create your group → - 4
Turn your Meetup page into a billboard
Every spot you can edit on Meetup points your members — and the strangers who find you in search — to your new home. Refresh your group header and description, pin your join link to the top of every upcoming event, and post a 'final standing event' with the link in its title. Your kit writes all of this for you.
- 5
Announce it in person
The single best converter is a face and a QR code at your next gathering. People in their seventies sign up on the spot. Your kit gives you a printable QR and a short thing to say.
- 6
Tell the channels you already have
Your WhatsApp group, your mailing list, wherever your people already talk — that's where the move actually happens. Share your join link there too.
What to expect
The tooling lowers the floor; it can't remove it. The in-person ask, the WhatsApp nudge, the follow-up — that part is yours. Do it, and your active members follow.