Simon Willison’s Weblog

Is Lanyrd any good?

18th February 2013

My answer to Is Lanyrd any good? on Quora

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(We have way more events in the past for each of these categories, but for the purposes of event recommendation the stuff that hasn’t happened yet is obviously more important).

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