Tables
Six members of one city, one evening, a place you choose together.
What a table is
Once a week EduFabTech invites 5 or 6 members of the same city who have not met here yet to one table — a dinner, a coffee, an evening. Nobody organises it and nobody hosts it: the site only chooses who is invited. It suggests no venue, books nothing and takes no money; the place is for the table to agree, and what you spend that evening is your own.
A table is not an event — nobody answers for it — and not a plan — nobody writes a reference. It is a way to meet people in your own city without having to make the first move.
Asking to be invited
Nothing happens until you ask. On Tables you say “invite me”; you can switch it off again at any time, and a table you are already at goes on. You need a complete friends card — the basics, your interests and what you are looking for — because that is what the site reads to seat you. Friend matching itself does not have to be switched on.
Tables are set in larger cities, of at least 200,000 people; if you live in a district or a smaller town, your tables are in the largest such city within 50 km. A city gets tables once about 25 members are active there and at least 5 of them have asked. Until then you can ask and wait: you are invited when it starts.
Who sits together
- Members who do not know each other. Never two members who are friends or matched here, who have a conversation or a plan together, or who sat at the same table before.
- Never across a block. A member you blocked, or who blocked you, is not invited to your table.
- Preferences hold for every pair. The age ranges, genders and shared language you set for friend matching hold between every two members at a table. Distance does not: the table is the city.
- Fit, from the lists. Among the members who can sit together, the site prefers those whose interests and rhythm fit best — read from the fixed lists on the friends card, never from your free text and never from your private details.
The invitation
Tables for a week are set between Monday and Thursday of the week before. You get one invitation, and you answer by ticking every evening you could make — or “not this time”, which costs nothing. Answers close 2 days before the week begins. Until the table is confirmed you see how many were invited and how many are in, never who.
When at least 4 of you can make the same evening, the table is confirmed for that evening, around 19:30; a member who could not make that one is let go. If no evening gathers 4, the table simply does not happen that week.
At the table
Once the table is confirmed, the members seated at it see each other — names, photos and the interests you share — and nobody else does. Each of you can suggest one place by name (no links, addresses or phone numbers) and tick the one that suits you; go with the one most of you ticked. The evening appears on your own calendar.
If you cannot come after all, leave the table so the others know; nobody is told why. If fewer than 3 members remain, the table is called off and the others are told. Meet in a public place, and tell someone where you are going.
Afterwards
For 14 days after the evening, each of you can say whether you were there and tick who else was. If you say you were there and at least 2 of the others tick you, you receive 0.5 trust points — the same as for attending an event. There are no references for a table, and nobody loses points for not coming or not answering.
Keep in touch. You can also tick “keep in touch” next to anyone who was there. That tick is shown to nobody — not to them, not to the others at the table, not to staff — unless they tick it for you too. Then a conversation opens between the two of you and you are both told. A table and everything about it is deleted 90 days after its week.