Meetup for Organizers 12+

Developers Improved the App recently

Looks like the developers have listened to the reviews for the first iteration (which needed much improvement). Glad to see many of the key features like seeing users and contacting users were added. They still link back to the web interface but it’s quite useable.
One feature that is critical and poses a safety issue: please allow organizers to ban members from the group from the app and prevent them from seeing future event times and locations. This is a serious safety concern as these banned members can easily crash an event and threaten members.

Developer Response ,

Hi there!

We are glad to see that you are enjoying the new features and thank you for your suggestion on allowing organizers to ban members via the App.

Our product team reviews all feedback and considers how we can incorporate it into future versions of Meetup. Please let us know if you have any more feedback to continue improving your experience.

Meetup gets worse by the year

Just what we need, a 2nd app to manage things we previously could from the main meetup app. It’s like meetup business planning is like “how can we make the user experience worse??” and then they implement whatever they come up with. Let’s add a 3rd app just because…

To address the developer response: I could previously “manage events on the go” from the meetup app, without the need for a second app. Why not a 3rd app to “allow me to create events on the go”? And another app to “allow me to edit events on the go”? You’ve stripped features away from the main app, making 2 apps a necessity for organizers who also want to attend other groups events. It’s entirely stupid to have a 2nd app with functionality that used to be present within the main meetup app. So many technologies allow persona changes with a simple drop-down….why would meetup think an entirely different app (which will of course have its own changes, updates, and management) is the right way to go? Dumb idea from the start.

Developer Response ,

We appreciate your feedback. Our app is designed for our organizers to manage their events and groups on the go. We are constantly working on adding new features, please let us know if there is a specific one you'd like to see to improve your experience.

Full of bugs

I’ve written many times about this on discord, but this app is so full of bugs. I can’t possibly list them all. Can you please go back to the original meet up that we can edit?
Here are just a few of the many bugs I ran into today:
1. When editing a new event, the app on iOS cannot find any of my previous locations. Both Google and iOS maps find this location by just typing the name. Meetup can’t find it, further cannot find my previous location for past events. So each time I have to enter that I’m in the United States, duh and all the other information to enter a location.
2. I see a new message, from the Meetup chat. But when I click on it it pages forward to next month and won’t let me see the chat from a previous meet up.
3. Then I try to view my personal direct messages, but they have disappeared. There is no longer a selection for direct messages.