Absolutely terrible app for paid organizers
I have multiple large Meetup groups (thousands of members in each) and have been paying Meetup for an organizer subscription since 2017. This app and their website are absolutely awful and not dependable. Currently, I cannot even post a new event on the app without getting a glitch saying to “Check my network settings” - despite my wifi and every app working fine.
There is always an issue and it’s also extremely annoying to have to have an extra app outside Meetup as an organizer anyways. The website also doesn’t let me post events without just a blank screen coming up. The customer service is zero. Most users on Meetup are trolls. I do not recommend becoming an organizer for any group through the Meetup platform.
There is always an issue and it’s also extremely annoying to have to have an extra app outside Meetup as an organizer anyways. The website also doesn’t let me post events without just a blank screen coming up. The customer service is zero. Most users on Meetup are trolls. I do not recommend becoming an organizer for any group through the Meetup platform.
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Not user friendly at all
I’ve used the regular Meetup app for awhile now and was inspired to start my own group. I foolishly did not listen to all of the organizers of meetup groups I’ve joined about how awful this app is. This is the least user friendly app I have ever used. In case I’m just stupid, I asked my software engineer husband to help me and he also couldn’t figure out this app. You have to sign in on a desktop to change your profile picture which is a massive undertaking in of itself…so why even have an app if you have to log onto desktop to complete basic tasks?!?? The organizer app is so bad that I unfortunately just decided to give up on starting my own group.
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Continuous Network Error
For the last few months this app - and the main Meetup app - have both been unusable, posting a “Network Error” every time I try to log in.
Great App to Meet People
Ive used Meetup for about 8yrs. In that time, i have joined communities, formed new interests, made good friends, and generally had a great time attending all sorts of events.
Join; tell your friends, and change your life.
Join; tell your friends, and change your life.
Hard to use
Don’t like it, hard to navigate. Members are non responsive and it should be free!
Super buggy
This is by far the buggiest app I use. When you’re writing an event description, it will randomly copy everything you’ve written and and paste it into your description so you have everything double. When you are creating an event, as you move through entering information for the different parts, it will randomly change things you’ve entered like the time of the event, the day of the event, whether or not people can bring guests, etc. Unless you are extremely careful in checking and rechecking everything multiple times over the course of creating the event, you are likely to post an event with incorrect information. There is no reason that I should have to enter the settings for my event, have the app randomly change them, and then have to re-enter them.
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Incredibly Disappointing
Please invest in User Experience Research and Design. The fact that an organizer needs to use two apps to manage events, communicate, or do just about anything makes using this app very difficult. Any UX professional that performed user journeys would quickly learn how difficult this platform is. I’m already preparing to migrate my group to Facebook, which is also FREE. There is no benefit to an organizer for paying to manage a group other than the opportunity to volunteer our time and improve Meetups signup data. Please do better.
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App issues
When writing up event descriptions, the content will duplicate itself. VERY annoying to have to continually go in to delete sentences that for some reason duplicate by themselves.
I have also had members tell me, and I’ve noticed it being in other meetup groups, that the notifications don’t work much anymore. The app is going downhill and making it difficult to schedule events because no one seems to hear about them. And YES, our notifications are on. The fees for this app are going up but yet the service and reliability are going down. This is why I see many meetups moving to Facebook groups.
I have also had members tell me, and I’ve noticed it being in other meetup groups, that the notifications don’t work much anymore. The app is going downhill and making it difficult to schedule events because no one seems to hear about them. And YES, our notifications are on. The fees for this app are going up but yet the service and reliability are going down. This is why I see many meetups moving to Facebook groups.
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Super buggy
This is by far the buggiest app I use.
When you’re writing an event description, it will randomly copy everything you’ve written and and paste it into your description so you have everything double.
When you are creating an event, as you move through entering information for the different parts, it will randomly change things you’ve entered like the time of the event, the day of the event, whether or not people can bring guests, etc. Unless you are extremely careful in checking and rechecking everything multiple times over the course of creating the event, you are likely to post an event with incorrect information. There is no reason that I should have to enter the settings for my event, have the app randomly change them, and then have to re-enter them.
When you’re writing an event description, it will randomly copy everything you’ve written and and paste it into your description so you have everything double.
When you are creating an event, as you move through entering information for the different parts, it will randomly change things you’ve entered like the time of the event, the day of the event, whether or not people can bring guests, etc. Unless you are extremely careful in checking and rechecking everything multiple times over the course of creating the event, you are likely to post an event with incorrect information. There is no reason that I should have to enter the settings for my event, have the app randomly change them, and then have to re-enter them.
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Absolutely FULL of bugs
I hate, Hate, HATE this app, but have no choice but to use it now as the old app will no longer allow me to create meetings. When typing an event description, it copies everything I type, making multiples of every line and paragraph. It is constantly reloading, so that I cannot see what I’m typing. If I leave the screen to get more information, everything I’ve added disappeares and I have to start from scratch. I can no longer type directly into it. The only choice is to type elsewhere and paste into it. When I save the meeting, it gives me a repeated connectivity error, no matter where I am or what I’m connected to. Hate it, and yet I pay $200 annually to use it. The worst!!!
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