Is there any intelligent reason a member can opt out of the messages of organisers?

It isn't even transparent to organisers who gets their messages and who opted out.
This makes it not only particularly hard to deal with zombie members (I don't even know if they are just on life support or already dead). It is actually bonkers, especially in regard of the vast amount of automated communication produced by the system that is annoying members anyway.

It would be really great to start and focus on what communication is necessary to make a group work and what is just a nuisance, distracting and counter productive.

THE most important communication in a group should be the organisers reaching their members to inform, manage, connect and encourage them.

So please assist your organisers by

- reducing the automated spam that is putting members off and masks relevant information (if it really takes a year to look into that as commented already, alright, but do it)
- don't let members opt out the organiser messages (this is just a design mistake, easy to fix. Please don't wait with this, do it as soon as possible)

The map on meetup everywhere is lacking a lot of functions. Would be beneficial if the map zoomed in more than it did so you can see
local areas a bit more. Users coming to the page for the first time automatically want to interact with the map. Wouldn't it make sense when people type in their location that the map went to their location? Then they can see if there are any pins on the map. Currently when you hover over a pin, it changes to a hand which suggests that you can click on it, but nothing happens when you do. In my opinion when someone does this it should have a little pop up to say where the community is and actually be clickable. Why can't it be a google map?

When emailing Meetup Planners and members there is no history to see what you last emailed them. I now have 22 communities for my site and I am starting to lose track of what I have sent to people. I can only imagine what a headache it might be for the one's with thousands of communities. Sometimes it is necessary to send a "welcome, here's some info" to the newcomers, but you don't necessarily want ALL of your communities to get it, so tailored messages are needed. An email/message history I believe would be most beneficial. Perhaps it could be more of an inbox/outbox interface instead of the confined box with no options?

It is annoying and distracting to have the 'show me the meetups' bar at the bottom of the screen permenantly in my face every time I view a page in a group I'm not subscribed to. It is particularly distracting when scrolling down the page while reading.

Certainly the link is useful, but taking up 10% of the page for this banner is wholly disproportionate to that usefulness and is a waste of space.

But unlike previous requests I am *not* asking for it to be removed I am asking for it to be replaced with a smaller link which does not distract the visitor from reading the page and uses up less space. And you could then even include this link in group pages the user had subscribed to, without disruption or annoyance!

Generally if people wish to view a category or do a search then they can navigate to it by clicking on the FIND button, which is already on every page. You can't presume that people will immediately want to view other groups in the same category, and its patronising to users and poor web design to preempt the user's intentions in such a blatent way. It just feels manipulative.

Adam G, your last reply regarding bookmarks and 'my group' subscriptions misses the point. Searching for or clicking through to new groups is supposed to be a central part of the user experience on this site, and that is precisely when this annoying banner keeps appearing whenever a page is viewed, and it is happening regardless of how you navigate to that page.

If the great big in your face banner was a popular request then please tell us and I will accept that I am in a minority here. But if this was just some team member's 'bright idea' then clearly it isn't one that is going down very well. So please also consider that before dismissing this concern.