Redditors can now follow their favorite subreddits. If you look on a subreddit page you'll see a green follow button (or following if you're already following a subreddit). So, why would you want to follow a subreddit? For now, if you follow a subreddit you'll be notified by email when a new meetup is scheduled in that subreddit. If you don't want to receive these emails, that's cool. There's a preference on your profile labeled "Receive upcoming meetup notifications?".





Meetups can now have organizers. This feature was requested by a number of moderators so we happily built it. When you start a meetup (or edit a meetup) you'll have the option to add any number of additional organizers. What does an organizer get to do? Organizers can edit meetup details, send emails to attendees (more on this later), cancel meetups and moderate photos and comments. They also get a nice organizer section on the meetup page with their profile photo!





Organizers can send emails to attendees. We wish you'd come hang out on redditgifts all day long but know that this just aint gonna happen. Also, planning a meetup often takes a while and involves coordination between different people. For this reason, organizers will be able to send updates to the attendees of their meetups (but they won't be able to see your email addresses, don't worry). Dont want to receive these emails? No prob, there's a preference in your profile labeled "Receive messages from organizers of meetups I'm attending?".





Meetup activity emails. This is a pretty standard feature that many people asked for, when someone comments on or adds a photo to a meetup you're attending, you'll get an email letting you know about it. Again, there's a preference to turn these emails off in your profile labeled "Notify me of my meetup activity?".





Subreddit moderators. We currently see the subreddits on redditgifts as a way to label and group meetups (and exchanges) and we want everyone to be able to submit meetups to them. However, some subreddits are pretty popular and have lots of meetups. These subreddits can contact us (until we figure out how to do this in an automated way) at support@redditgifts.com, tell us what subreddit you want to be a moderator of, we'll verify that you are a moderator of that subreddit on reddit.com and then make you a moderator. What does a subreddit moderator get to do on redditgifts you ask? To start out with, they'll be able to inactivate meetups and make meetups "official" in their subreddit. Moderators, after you create your meetup you'll see a familiar gray upvote arrow next to your subreddit title, click that and it will magically become an orangered upvote and thus become official ... so that everyone knows just how great this meetup will be.





What's next you ask? Well, we are currently building in a bunch of location data into redditgifts meetups to help the masses of redditors find meetups (and subreddits) they can (and should) attend. It's all pretty exciting if you ask us, redditors really aren't the forever alone folk their made out to be.

Have a new feature you think we should build? If you email us, we'll probably do it!