Is there a viable alternative for people to meet other people of similar interests for romantic entanglements? If not then clubs where people meet face to face still have a clear purpose.

I meet my first lover at a SF event (the monthly dinners at the pub in Tory street (long since demolished (help I am trapped in a set of recursive bracketing (where is a lisp programmer when you need one)))), my first wife at a SF convention, at least one potential mistress (she was too virtuous alas) at another con. Latter romantic entanglements I met online.

Is Phoenix still facillating people rubbing their wabby bits together?