Ideas and Suggestions for Meetup
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Allow organizers to moderate comments before entire mailing list is spammed
Please, please, please let the organizers moderate comments before they are spammed to the entire mailing list. This is the most abused feature on Meetup.com.
I know that individual meetup users can change their preferences to not receive those comments. No one else knows that, unless the look really hard. New members think the organizers have some influence on this. They do not.
I organize one of Silicon Valley's largest and most active meetups, and our users complain about this to me constantly. Please change this.
415 votes -
Larger photos, please. Pics get reduced so much in the Member's view, it's hard to recognize people.
Pictures in the Member's view get reduced so much that the member's faces are hardly recognizable. Please make these pictures bigger that appear in the member's view. OR allow an option for organizers to crop in on photos for the member's view.
40 votes -
RSVP on mouse-over
In order to speed up the RSVPing process, there should be a way to hover over the event on the calendar, and upon mouse-over, be able to click 'yes' or 'no' without having to enter the event link, or deal with it through email, etc.
If I'm missing something and this already exists, or something better, PLEASE let me know.
Thanks!!!
56 votes -
Create an option to recieve a SINGLE daily or weekly email from Meetup to replace multiple email notifications
Meetup is an incredible tool, but one of the most annoying things about being an active participant is the sheer volume of emails one receives from different groups, new meetups maching your interests, etc.
An idea that would help dramatically reduce the number of emails we have to deal with would be an option to receive a single "Meetup Digest" email daily or weekly, containing any newly added meetups, newly joined members/discussion posts, etc. that users would normally receive individual emails about. This email could be dynamically created for each user based on their group memberships and what email triggers… more
79 votesunder review ·
AdminMatt
(Director of Product at Meetup, Meetup.com )
responded
We’ve got a dedicated team working on addressing email volume.
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E-mail members who have joined recently
In the E-mail Members, create a radio button for Members who have joined in the past 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, and 3 months. It would also be great to have another radio button to E-mail pending members only.
17 votes -
43 votes
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Allow organizers to use pay pal, as a payment method, to renew the group.
I can collect membership fees with pay pal, but I cannot renew my group with pay pal. It doesnt make any sense. My account is already connected to pay pal.
40 votes -
Stop promoting other EVENTS on other groups after someone rsvp's. PLEASE. Too many cancellations because people get too many options.
I have run 3 groups for several years and the Cancellations, especially at the last minute (48-72 hours) are at ALL TIME HIGHs. I believe that this is due mostly to the crossposting that meeting does when people rsvp for a groups event and then gives them a whole bunch more options from OTHER GROUPS EVENTS taking up the whole middle (not side bar) of my groups page. PLEASE, I am not paying meetup to send people to other events in other groups. I CAN understand the small sidebar on the left promoting other groups in the area but not… more
23 votes -
What rights do I have if I believe I have been unfairly treated by Belfast Hillswalking Dynamos group organiser?
What rights do I have if I believe I have been unfairly treated by Belfast Hillswalking Dynamos group organiser - who stopped my membership without a right of appeal?
I've been fired from the Belfast Hillwalkers group today by email for, I believe, asking why kids weren't allowed in the group, for suggesting that members may be interested in social get-togethers outside of the walks and for including my business details in my member profile (I'm self employed)!
8 votes -
Let organizers (and maybe all members) be able to jump to any month in the future/past.
It is difficult to go back month by month by month to get to a yearly event to see the details of the meetup. It is the same problem with wanting to add notes in a future month. It would be much easier if we could simply select the month and year and be taken directly to that page.
15 votes -
Groups within meetup
I am looking for feature that would allow me to setup couple more groups within a meetup, .
13 votes -
Get calendar to work on export to new Yahoo calendar. Puts in one day ahead and wrong time. Day late for a meetup the other day--ANGRY!!
Since Yahoo changed their calendar a few months ago the Export to Calendar function has not worked. It always tries to set the wrong date--one day ahead and in the AM (maybe it's trying to use GST now that I think about it???). If you don't catch it that's a huge problem--as in I was a day late for a book discussion earlier in the week. VERY annoying! PLEASE please fix!!!
4 votes -
Set up a way for members to choose what cities their "local area" should encompass.
When a member inputs their zip code, provide radio buttons to choose a 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 mile radius of recommended groups. OR give a list of 5-10 of the largest population areas near them. I live in Columbia, MD. Meetup recommends Washintgon DC area groups to me when I'd rather see recommendations for Baltimore area groups.
59 votes -
Please get rid of the the members are also in, pop up at the bottom of pages.
It is annoying and affects what people can click on the bottom of pages.
5 votes -
Provide organizers with badges they can award members
I want to be able to reward members who perform services for my meetup, such as giving talks, video recording meetings, or taking notes and posting them.
I've love to have a pool of "merit badges" available that I can assign meaning to, and give to my members, and have meetup track a count for them. These should show up on the member's profile, and probably next to their name in the RSVP list, so others can see the reward.
It would also be nice to automatically reward people who attend regularly, or at least give a count of the… more
43 votes -
Provide the option to permanently removed specified groups from suggested meetups
I love the ability to see suggested meetups. However, there are certain groups that I will never be meeting up with. For example, as a man, I will not be joining any women-only groups. These groups do nothing for me except take up space on my home page.
It would be great to see an option to remove specific groups form the suggested meetup section wit something as simple as an "X". This would allow the suggested meetups to remain practical, yet personalized.
41 votes -
Filter new meetup group announcements by gender, age, orientation, etc.
With all the meetup emails I get, I don't need to see announcements for female-only or gay-only groups (I'm a straight male), or for groups that are outside of my age range. I'm sure women feel the same about male-only meetup groups.
I still want to get announcements for meetups that might interest me, but these just clog by my in-box even more.
This can be solved by making optional fields for gender, age, and sexual orientation (these can be check boxes, so people can check more than one option if necessary). Then, meetup organizers can select which categories their… more
18 votes -
More functionality need in the Android App.
I would love the ability to create, events, see who has rsvp etc on the android app. I would appreciated a cut down version of the website to be available on the app please. regards Frank
6 votes -
Add the ability to edit past meetups (as an organizer)
Having the ability to edit a Past Meetup would allow me to add a link to the user group videos that we create so that members that could not make it in (we frequently have a very large waiting list) can see the video afterwards.
5 votes -
Have another status button to "CONFIRM" a person's attendance.
In all meetups, people RSVP "YES" and are on the "Going" list, while of course, others do the same and are on the "Waiting List." Quite often, when an event is created several weeks in advance, people on the "Going" list don't bother to check the calendars and end up flaking out at the last minute. So, what I've been doing is asking people to add the text "Confirmed" in their RSVP a week or so before the event, so that the folks on the waiting list (who indeed want to come) can join in, if others don't respond. It's… more
46 votes