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.

Would be good if we were able to choose if a url link showed or not when someone clicks on the redeem, of the Perks area.

At present when doing above, it comes up with the 'How to Redeem' and the green box, showing the whole url.

Would wish to have the url disguised and not be shown, and allow us to place the wording we wish to appear there instead.

This would be similar to discussions, where we can select the link icon on the toolbar and link to an external url and have our wording show instead of url for people to click on.

Presently wish to place affiliate link for them to visit, however, cannot do this as gives all the coding etc as example: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/.../?af=153.....

Better if we could choose our own wording, ie something like: 'Just visit their site here', or 'redeem the specials'. or whatever, in place of the url showing.

Is this a possibility for the future

If you are already subscribed to a few groups then the most important thing to the user is keeping up with all the Events that are coming up in those Groups.

Thus it would make sense that on the personal home page the main, central thing should be all the upcoming events. Instead on the current home page the largest section of the page is devoted to some vaguely related group suggestions.

The upcoming events for subscribed groups is squeezed in on the right under the calender and only shows the next weeks events.

To get a good overview of all the things coming up for the next month I need to check every individual group page. Its so annoying.

I really don't care about these group suggestions, they are the same ones I"ve already considered and decided against. I am however concerned that in two or three weeks time there is an event on for a group that I am already subscribed to. That should be the key thing on the homepage.

I'm in a LOT of groups, so I get a ton of notification emails. Many I don't read for a while, and many I keep for future reference, so they build up quickly. When it comes time to clean up my mailbox (past events, etc), it's currently a painful task...many subject lines don't even have the event date included, so the email must be opened. If ALL notifications listed the event date first, managing them would be extremely easier! Listing the response cut-off date second would also be helpful. The event title is next most important, so shorten all the "intro" phrases as much as possible, e.g. from "You're invited to" to just "Invite"...only so much of a subject line fits on the screen! THANKS?

Too many members can and do RSVP from their email announcements, which is great for them, but the current template does not show enough event details and members are not very often reading the full event details before they RSVP and thus, are ignoring special provisions that the event host has asked for. Please make it at least and OPTION for the event host to require that the full event post be read before a person can RSVP. Another flaw with the current system is when an member RSVP's from their email, Meetup takes them directly OUT of the event for the confirmation, so they again are not encouraged to ever read any event details or know that there were stipulations.

Organizers need more robust ways to track participation in their groups, and quick access tools for contacting different groups of members. I would like to be able to a) see on the member page when the last time was that a member attended an event and/or how many events the member has attended (right now that information requires viewing the individual members page which is extra clicks), and b) be able to quickly email members who have not attended an event in X amount of time to encourage their participation. Right now, we can only view and email members based on how often they've visited the website, which is very limiting.