Meetup for Organizers Hack 2023.9.19 + Redeem Codes

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.

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.

While this is billed as an app for meetup organizers, it’s far from it. The only thing you can do in this app is make and edit events, something you can already do in the original Meetup app. You cannot: - manage or edit your group settings - view or adjust your member list - view or accept new member requests - contact your group members - view group notifications or posts - see any group statistics I downloaded it because I thought this would make my life easier. It only takes up room on my phone. Just use the regular Meetup app and visit the desktop website to do anything that app can’t handle. A real app for organizers would let you do everything you can already do in the original Meetup app and enjoy new features. Don’t waste your time on this one.

This new version has made some improvements, but it is still very clunky and somewhat unforgiving when using it on a mobile device. The worst problem is when writing a description for an event. After typing past three or four sentences, editing can become very challenging. And forget speed or finger drag typing-as the system just can’t handle it, causing your text to become completely indiscernible gibberish.

I have been a customer for years and organized many events. Meetup services are often out of service, giving 500 errors. When it works, it’s pretty slow to load. I suggest investing more on reliability and performance. As for the organizer app, it’s asking for login every time I open it; did someone mess up the saving of a an auth session? So much for a dedicated organizer app, it doesn’t have all the settings, so I end up using the desktop web app anyway. I recent problem I came across was the new feature Event chat for some reason didn’t appear in settings for a new event that was copied from an old one.

This message is to the creators of MeetUp. I made a series of events and was able to set it for each Sunday of every week, continuously. I want to edit them and change the time and/or delete them if needed. I am able to make a series of continuous events but there’s not an option to go back and edit them all at once, only individually… which is kind of annoying. Otherwise, great app and I recommend it to anybody and everybody.

Allow guests always defaults to on and 99 guests (who EVER needs to allow 99 guests????!). Even after correcting to 1 guest and saving, it goes back to 99.

My group does lots of outdoor adventures where the meetup location has no actual street address. While we can edit the map pin location, the app still also requires a street address. This creates confusion. It would be nice to be able to have access to satellite view on the map. When will GPS coordinates be accepted in the meetup location field?

Thanks.

I rated this a couple of months ago and while they did fix my issue with always having to sign back in despite just using it they still haven’t fixed the RSVP date issue when creating an event. It still only allows you to set the RSVP open date to two weeks before the event. That makes no sense to me because I’m the regular app you can set it 30 days before. I hate creating events in the organizer app so much that I uninstall it and use the regular app.

Are use the drag to type feature with the iPhone 8. In the app it doesn’t seem to work very well.

Also, when I’m setting the date and the time, when I pick the start time, and then I go to the end time, that affects the start time, so I have to change the start time again. I think you should automatically add an hour or two to the start time, for the end time, and don’t let the end time affect start time.

The regular Meetup app has features I use frequently that are just missing on the Meetup Organizer app. Copying event leaves out date and times so it takes more work to schedule a weekly event. Can’t see “not going” list. “Group settings” just sends you to the website (not impressed) No event chat ability. Can’t add users to group. The Meetup Organizer app has no features that were not on the regular Meetup app (now the Meetup app disallows event copying and forwards to the Organizer app. ). This app has no purpose and is a waste of organizers’ time. Meetup hopefully will learn from this mistake.