Talk:Saturday meetup

Why did you take out the boat? -Robyn 17:24, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Saturday vs. Sunday

Has anyone else noticed whether Sunday is (becoming) more popular than Saturday, for geohashing in general or meetups in particular?

I don't know, and I'm not sure there's enough data to compute. In my graticule we have so few usable geohashes (two this month so far) that we take whatever we can get. It might be possible for someone to run a program on the database, if it's possible to find all the Expeditions and parse the dates. -Robyn 17:24, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

new image

I'm not sure what gave Benjw the gonads to change the main page image that no one has ever dared touch... but thanks! I had recently looked them up and noticed they hadn't participated in a very long time. Bright and sunny isn't a requirement for me, but having white-balance that looks like they're on our planet is nice. Juventas 04:39, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

And a similar thanks again for the recent edit! Arlo (talk) 07:05, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

IMO the new picture is not an ideal illustration for a Saturday meetup, since it took place on a Monday. --Fippe (talk) 12:31, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Interesting point. The bluish one was on a Tuesday. Arlo (talk) 21:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Tbh, the first thing I checked was also the date. Now this would be a proper Saturday meetup with picture included ;) (the picture part is the not so easy to find). --SastRe.O (talk) 07:47, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Well, file:2022-03-26 47 -122 coyotebush 1648337308693.png is a version without the Geohash Droid overlay, if you feel inclined to swap it. Arlo (talk) 08:20, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Ok, speaking as the person who changed it, IMHO although the image is attached to this part of the main page, since it's the only image (other than the gallery), it's essentially functioning as the "this is what geohashing looks like". Whether the image represents a "meetup" that happened on a Saturday or some other day seems a bit irrelevant. Stevage (talk) 10:50, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

New text

I've been trying to reduce the amount of text on the front page, which has become extremely wordy. So I put this text in place, which I thought accurately conveyed everything that needed to be said about "Saturday meetups":

> Traditionally, the "official" meetup time is Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m.(*) at that day’s normal geohash coordinates, but all days are equally good for geohashing.

> *Or earlier if 4:00pm is too close to sunset during the winter. See your local graticule page for conventions.

This [new version of the text](https://geohashing.site/index.php?title=Saturday_meetup&type=revision&diff=836664&oldid=836647) is, IHMO, much too long for the front page. Is it ok if we shorten it again, and maybe move all that detail to a subpage?

(And again, IMHO, I do think the whole notion that geohashers might run any reasonable chance of randomly bumping into other people if they just turn up to the right location at 4PM on a Saturday is a complete fiction that may have been true in a couple of specific locations for a couple of months in 2008, but never since then. The much better way for people to meet up is to share their plans with each other and actually coordinate a time, any day of the week). Stevage (talk) 10:50, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

A subpage of some sort sounds like a good plan. I'll be honest, my first revision I had forgotten that this was transcluded rather than merely linked, and then I noticed the list of places the image was said by the wiki to have been used. While happenstance meetups aren't completely made up (see that thread in the community board with you and Fippe), they definitely represent a minority of meetups, and I agree the Saturday thing really has only historical value. Perhaps if we're rejiggering this, we could merge with meetup? (incidentally, talk:meetup is an amusing contribution to the discussion from the past). Anyway, I agree that 'this is what geohashing looks like' is an important job of the main page (the link to the hall of awesome helps this cause a lot too); others are 'what is geohashing?' (how it works and brief origins) and 'how to start'. Not much else needs to be said I'd think, but perhaps I'm wrong. Arlo (talk) 15:06, 18 April 2022 (UTC)