Groups should be able to attract new members from outside Meetup (via search engine/ Google) in addition to those already within Meetup ecosystem.

Potential members usually look at a group's past events history to evaluate whether they are interested in joining.

However, i have noticed that when googling for my events, only the upcoming events for my group seem to be "found" by google and past events seem to be "hidden" or are not SEO-optimized to be found.

Whether this is intentional or accidental, it is shortchanging Meetup as much as the group because think of all the missed opportunities to convert people from internet into Meetup members and group members.

There are 3 tabs at the top of every homepage: the first is for "Upcoming" events, the second is for "Past" events, and the third is for the group "calendar". Right now Meetup automatically shows the "Upcoming" tab as the default whenever people visit the site. But I have a lot of events that I don't necessarily want to make an official meetup for, but I would still like to promote to my group and that I list as "notes" on the calendar, and that is the only place they show up. I constantly get people telling me "hey did you know there's this festival coming up that I think our group would like to check out" and I'm like "yes I know, I already listed it on the calendar". It seems for many people that no matter how many times you tell them to check the calendar to see a listing of ALL events going on, both official meetups, and non official events just posted for information purposes, they don't bother to click on that little tab that says "Calendar". And to be honest, I think having the homepage default to a calendar would be a lot easier for my members to see at a glance what is coming up during the month, both for official meetups I have planned as well as other events I may not be making a meetup for but I just want them to know about that are going on around the city that pertain to my special interest group.

If events don't show up on the home page when they first click on it, peeps usually don't find out about it because they don't go digging further through the website to find out about it, even if you mention it on the message boards. Giving Organizers the option to choose which tab the homepage always defaults to shouldn't be to hard to implement I would think.

I saw a lot of topics about allowing for summary reports for late cancels. But those would only be available to head organizers who run the meetup. The feature I'm proposing would be automatic and instant.
I think there could be a time frame set (e.g. 2 hours before a meetup), and if someone cancels within that time frame, they are automatically bounced to No Show. Then when the event host/organizer reviews the event later, they will know who cancelled last minute. After they've dealt with those names, they can start marking their actual No Shows (i.e. who were still Attending but failed to show up).
This would reduce the time and energy organizers would need to cross reference different lists to figure out who cancelled last minute and who No Show'd. If members know it's an automated process, it may change their behaviour.

I just took over as Organizer for the New Orleans Drawing Group Meetup.
Most of the attendees of our local drawing group are usually by word of mouth, but we do get, for the present, just a few attendees who find out about the group from the Meetup page and only a very few RSVP - so most of the time, it appears on our meetup page as if the number of attendees are so meager. We rarely fill the room, so we do not even need anyone to RSVP. They can still contact me or post or ask any questions.

Because of that reason, I wanted to find out HOW WE CAN DISABLE THE RSVP function, or make it that it doesn't show up.
We do certainly get the word spread about our drawing group from the Meetup site - so it is quite beneficial!

Hi Meetup Support,

As an organizer, i am always juggling between members who are genuinely coming & only interested in a meetup. The WaitList status is also very useful...

The interested status is very important! From the group of interested members we find members who can confirm. We also find out who are the more active members too.

I have so many members who tell me they are interested but didn't rsvp since they cannot commit an event.

So let the organizer allow an event to have Interested members just like the ability to allow WaitList members in an event.

Many thanks,
Alex

Bring back the ability to see a list of the newest Meetup Groups within so many miles of one's location. I used to be able to do this on the page for finding groups, and until a few years ago, the newest groups were also listed in one of the weekly newsletters.

I do get e-mails from Meetup when new groups are founded, but only for interests I've already indicated. That means I can miss two kinds of groups:

1) Groups in categories that I haven't searched or participated in before.

2) Groups in categories that are worded slightly differently than the categories Meetup has listed for me. E.g., "boardgames" vs. "board games", vs. "games" vs. "gaming" vs."Scrabble".

I wasn't told why this functionality was dropped. If the reason was to reduce clutter on the Search page, I would think it would be relatively easy to create a weekly newsletter for people who want this information. If Meetup decides to go with the newsletter, I hope it sends out an initial newsletter going back to a few weeks before the functionality was dropped.

Create a page on the site where local "Event Space providers" can offer their space to Meetup Organizers. Many times organizers have a hard time locating affordable or free space for events. This resource page would provide organizers with localized listings of providers.

This information is then used to expand meetup by allowing more organizers to find better more suitable venues to host events. This expands meetup capabilities to host more events.

I propose a page where people like myself can promote their space with a Space Profile: Photos of all the rooms, details on each space, affordable costs if any, contact details, website address etc.
i.e.
http://www.edgarcaycenyc.org/index.php/holistic-health/room-rental

Our spaces look much better than this but these are old images.

I think you get the idea. If every space provider made it into a Meetup Event Space Profile your organizers would have a very easy way of finding affordable locations for events and would not be forced to meet in crowded coffee shops or their homes.

Regards,

Robert

I feel that the 'No' RSVP option is redundant and leads to spam. If someone doesn't RSVP then they don't; end of story. If they have an abiding need to mention why they haven't RSVPed then surely this could be made as a POST to that meetup.

However, perhaps others feel differently to me ;-). Is there a way, as an Organiser, that I can totally stop all 'No's for my meetup or, at least, stop the 'No' emails being emailed to me. Yes, of course I can block all emails for my meetup but I want to know about 'Yes's and comments and posts.