Just finished up a project that I’ve been meaning to get to for a year: bringing ADK Climb Club to the open web.

We’ve had a landing page on Micro.blog for a while, but all the info about our meetups was going out via Instagram and WhatsApp. But not everyone wants to use those apps, and I heard from them! So, I buckled down and imported all the old posts, and hooked up my auto-crossposter.

Now, everything that we post to Instagram shows up on our website as a native, web-friendly blog posts. And I enabled email subscriptions (free, thanks to Micro.blog!), so folks can get an email each time that we share information about a meetup.

Although Instagram is still our “primary” platform — that’s where our biggest audience is and where we pick up new members — I feel much better about the club being more accessible on the open web, and that people can stay in the loop with posts pushed out to them without having to sign up for a Meta app.

If you’re a climber (or are climbing curious) and near Lake Placid, NY on a Wednesday night, you should come check us out!

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