I'm interested in how we can design online communities to better reinforce and facilitate the human experience which digital connectedness often makes us miss out on.<p>An obvious answer is to encourage more real world, face to face interaction. But there's many questions still on how best to do this.<p>I wonder specifically, what are the aspects of physical meetups that we enjoy and that keep us coming back.<p>How can we use technology to remove some of the work in facilitating these, and make us less lonely.<p>I reckon the HN community will have some interesting personal opinions and experiences on in-person and digital communities. Please chime in with your thoughts!
Checkout nextdoor: <a href="https://nextdoor.com" rel="nofollow">https://nextdoor.com</a><p>I've never used it myself, but I think they're doing efforts to merge online communities (local social network) and in-person activities.