Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free

Re:Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free by kelnos on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:33PM (#22252375)

I feel like if you really wanted to use technology to fix this issue, it's just as easily -- and maybe better? -- done in a more affirmative way. Say you have a repeating calendar invite for your nights out. Everyone agrees that they'll leave the invitation un-responded until they definitively do or do not want to meet up. If, within an hour or so (or whatever) of the meeting time, no one has replied "yes" to the invitation, it's implicitly canceled. If at least one person says "yes", then others who are on the fence can see that someone else really wants to meet up, and possibly decide to join.

Regardless, I agree, as you say, that this problem maybe isn't really one that needs solving. But I also agree that using some sort of no-communication-needed app to solve this particular coordination problem does not present an apocalyptic threat to human social interactions ;)

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Re:Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free by hug on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:45PM (#22252449)

I feel like it being implicitly cancelled would be a bug, not a feature, but maybe that's because my scenario is, generally speaking, a positive thing that most people want to attend, and increasing friction is just not something anyone wants.

We're mostly just agreeing about the idea and nitpicking about the particulars, though.

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Re:Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free by kelnos on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:55PM (#22252517)

Yeah, that's a good point. I think I personally like the idea of a default-on get-together vs. one where people have to opt-in week after week. And, again, I do agree that your use case would be a really benign and useful way to solve your problem.

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