MeetupReviews 498

Since they have sold to wework.com things have gotten worse. Whatever I didn't like about Meet Up, the website function was pretty good. Now all that's gone and the supposedly "mobile friendly" version does not exist. Worse still, they are taking away document storage and calendar. Yet they still expect you to pay for this while they take functions away?!

I suggest that anyone could spin up a Wordpress site for 6.00 bucks a month, add in the social and calendar plugins, Buddypress, and away you go. Caio Meet Up!

It's very telling that I came here specifically to write a comment suggesting Organizers band together and file a class action lawsuit and the most recent comment is suggesting the exact same thing.

Groups are failing. RSVPs have plummeted. Emails are not being read/received. It's become impossible to reach group members. It used to be a new group would get the initial boost of 100-300 members the first week after Meetup announced the group to members. Now you're lucky to get 20-30 members. I use unique links for payment in all of my postings. Events are garnering less than 10 clicks over 3 weeks for a group of 1,000 members. I post discount codes and nobody uses them. It's as if members aren't even aware an event has been posted. It's time Organizers demand an explanation. Meetup is not delivering the services they advertise. Things were degrading before the new redesign but now it's in complete failure.

The new app is horrible, confusing, can't post a meetup from my phone, have to go find a computer. I know many, many people who have emailed them to tell then that their app sucks, but they are just ignoring everyone. They know they're the only game in town, so they do whatever the heck they want to. Eventually, they won't be however, and everyone will flee their site immediately! I heard they are going to load the new version on-line as well. If they change the computer access to look like the app, I'm going to stop being an organizer and drop out of meetup. I'll just use Facebook to create invites to all the people I met on meetup, and abandon meetup until someone else comes along who does a better job of listening to their customers.

Guys to gals ratio super unbalanced. Can be as bad as 20:1
Organizer simply does not care. Only concern about profit making; the more the merrier. Feedback from some gals they are targeted and disturbed by organizer (male). The whole thing feels like a scam -> organizer use this entirely to his own benefit. That is, to get both gals and income AT THE SAME TIME. The RSVP list also seems to be faked up.

Avoid, avoid and Avoid!...

Or

Enter at your own risk!

Or

If you simply has nothing better to do

I used to use meetup to find new events and new groups and new things to do on a daily basis.
I would just browse the calendar for that day oe the upcoming days and find new and interesting things to do and groups to join.
Now i cant even navigate the app and they took away the BEST part of meetup... THE CALENDAR!
It looks like a pinterest board now. I hate it!
Hope th3se messages reach the owners and they acually do something about it

Is Meetup insane? What twisted logic causes an internet company to create and enforce such hostile policy against paying customers?

On Tue, Oct 11,2016 at 11:58 AM, Meetup HQ <*******@meetup.com>­ wrote:

Hello Bill,
We are writing about your Meetup group, Makers of Phoenix, because we noticed you are hosting online events. Meetup is committed to bringing people together in real life to do what matters most to them. Thats why Meetup groups that are primarily about online interactions are not permitted.

In order to comply with our policies, more than half of your groups Meetups should be local, in-person events. You may host a webinar or online discussion as long as, overall, at least 50% of your Meetups are in-person.

Please review your upcoming Meetups and make sure at least half are in-person. If necessary, remove online Meetups or add in-person Meetups. If you cancel any upcoming Meetups, please issue refunds to members who paid you. You do not need to alter past Meetups.

In 2 weeks, we will review your group again. If your Meetup continues to focus on online interactions instead of in-person activities, it will be closed.

Please see our Help Center information on these recent policy updates. You can also read our Community Guidelines. We reserve the right to remove groups at our own discretion per our Terms of Service.

Thank you for your commitment to Meetup.

I have used Meetup.com for Six years as of Nov 2017. They have been a problem ever since I started using them, and the app they just pushed out in Sept of 2016 has taken a bad situation to worse.The only thing this company will understand is falling revenue. They do not even have a contact us button on their main web page. The new logo is more like a blood splatter from a murderer and Rapes and assaults have been associated with this social media site. Be smarter use Facebook. Meetup just sucks. Update: Now they are going to modify the Web-page interface so it looks like the app. Useless non functionality is the goal, Please I beg everyone to just leave Meetup.com they don't give a damn who gets harmed by the unscrupulous organizers who lure people into situations that are not safe. I really wish this social media would have died in 2009, Use Facebook Groups they at least do not cost the owner money to operate.