Coming Up Again

April 3, 2017 4:47 PM

Upcoming.org has returned! Originally founded by mefi’s own Andy Baio to help people find cool events, it was acquired by Yahoo back in 2006 and eventually killed off, its community squandered. After a successful 2014 kickstarter (as reported by The Verge and Engadget), a few years of background work, and a three-month code sprint, the site relaunched on March 30. Previously
(It also has the interesting distinction of being “the first major website to… use Archive Team's grab to recreate [its] data.”)
posted by Going To Maine (12 comments total)

In other words, “an old website’s relaunch is noted on another old website”.
posted by Going To Maine at 4:50 PM on April 3, 2017 [6 favorites]

Well, this old user says: Congrats, Andy! I've definitely missed the waxy links these past months (more to the point: I miss being able to steal links to post on Mefi) but the code sprint explains it. Glad your cold long winter is over-- welcome back into the sunshine and best of luck with the relaunch.
posted by gwint at 4:57 PM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

Cool! Apparently you can only log in via twitter though?
posted by whir at 5:07 PM on April 3, 2017

Yep, Twitter is being used to manage accounts.
posted by Going To Maine at 5:13 PM on April 3, 2017

I found my old events (2003-2011) but I wonder if there's a way to link them to my new Twitter-linked account.
posted by larrybob at 5:18 PM on April 3, 2017

Might be a good question to ask the @upcomingorg twitter?
posted by Going To Maine at 5:22 PM on April 3, 2017

Very happy to see this come back. Andy Baio is awesome. I checked out of the Twitter-world years back now, though. I've been considering signing up again...
posted by defenestration at 5:37 PM on April 3, 2017 [2 favorites]

This is so cool! How many times can you recall some favorite site or company getting bought up by a behemoth, then getting killed off? Countless. But how many times can you recall a site like that coming back from the grave in this manner? I'm not sure I've ever seen that before.
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 9:53 PM on April 3, 2017 [4 favorites]

Well, new archaeological evidence shows that the behemoth usually breaks the site's bones and burn the remains to prevent it from rising from the grave...
posted by Harald74 at 11:33 PM on April 3, 2017 [2 favorites]

This is so cool! How many times can you recall some favorite site or company getting bought up by a behemoth, then getting killed off? Countless. But how many times can you recall a site like that coming back from the grave in this manner? I'm not sure I've ever seen that before.

Delicious sort of came back from the grave. But as an abomination.
posted by srboisvert at 6:11 AM on April 4, 2017

Can someone do this for Flickr please?
posted by Happy Dave at 12:50 PM on April 4, 2017 [2 favorites]

Hm, I see a few more recent events on the wayback machine than my events list present on the site, but it's still amusing. I had been doing a project where I added every gaming convention I could find as an upcoming event. I was even prolific enough to have a t-shirt sent to me back in the day.
posted by Karmakaze at 7:56 AM on April 6, 2017