Meetup for Organizers 12+

Developers Improved the App recently

Looks like the developers have listened to the reviews for the first iteration (which needed much improvement). Glad to see many of the key features like seeing users and contacting users were added. They still link back to the web interface but it’s quite useable.
One feature that is critical and poses a safety issue: please allow organizers to ban members from the group from the app and prevent them from seeing future event times and locations. This is a serious safety concern as these banned members can easily crash an event and threaten members.

Developer Response ,

Hi there!

We are glad to see that you are enjoying the new features and thank you for your suggestion on allowing organizers to ban members via the App.

Our product team reviews all feedback and considers how we can incorporate it into future versions of Meetup. Please let us know if you have any more feedback to continue improving your experience.

Buggy

I use Meetup for Organizers in two main ways: (1) to create events and (2) to approve new members to my group. Both features are buggy and frustrating to use.

Adding bold, italics, and other formatting to event descriptions can’t be done like you would in a word processor. Instead, you have to use asterisks. Even when you do that, the preview doesn’t show the formatting, so you have to hope it worked correctly, or wait to preview your draft in a browser. Multiple reviewers below have mentioned how dysfunctional the text boxes are, so I’ll just add to the chorus on that. I’ve taken to typing my event descriptions in Apple Notes then copying and pasting to the app.

Approving pending members is the most frustrating feature. It seems to work in different ways depending on how many members there are to approve. It’s not an app page; instead, it opens a browser page (negative billion stars for this alone). There used to be a way to approve all requests at once, but that seems to have disappeared. My welcome message doesn’t show on the approval page, so I can’t make edits if needed. And there’s no option to select whether to default to sending the welcome message or not, so I have to choose each time. Meetup web isn’t perfect, but it’s definitely easier to use than the app. I only use the app when I have to. I hope it improves.

Meetup gets worse by the year

Just what we need, a 2nd app to manage things we previously could from the main meetup app. It’s like meetup business planning is like “how can we make the user experience worse??” and then they implement whatever they come up with. Let’s add a 3rd app just because…

To address the developer response: I could previously “manage events on the go” from the meetup app, without the need for a second app. Why not a 3rd app to “allow me to create events on the go”? And another app to “allow me to edit events on the go”? You’ve stripped features away from the main app, making 2 apps a necessity for organizers who also want to attend other groups events. It’s entirely stupid to have a 2nd app with functionality that used to be present within the main meetup app. So many technologies allow persona changes with a simple drop-down….why would meetup think an entirely different app (which will of course have its own changes, updates, and management) is the right way to go? Dumb idea from the start.

Developer Response ,

We appreciate your feedback. Our app is designed for our organizers to manage their events and groups on the go. We are constantly working on adding new features, please let us know if there is a specific one you'd like to see to improve your experience.