Meetup

Many many many glitches in the system. Folks unable to sign up for the event, suddenly requiring passwords that the host did not initiate, and every time I sign up for an event and am ready to find the next one to do the same, the page does not properly refresh, instead, landing me at the very bottom where the site has its grey-boxed info. It should be putting my view right back where I left off.

The ads are truly obnoxious. Every single time you sign up for something, you deal with a pop up ad. And there is no way to even filter them to your likes.

There is not a single user in the group I regularly attend who is happy with meetup. We are currently exploring alternative venues.

I can't pay my organizer dues on Meetup, so I am going to lose my group. This, after I've been on automatic pay for an entire year. And they have no mechanism to take my credit card number other than by computer - and their payment screen doesn't work. Now they are asking me to clear all the cookies off my computer to see if that helps. It's so frustrating. They need some good competition. Is there another website that does the same kind of thing?

I don't know what happened. I'm an organizer for a group with almost 500 people, have to pay them $200/year, and I don't get any notifications! Not by email or push notification. The programmers have completely tanked this site. There are so many glitches, the UI is abominable. We have resorted to building a website specifically for our group.

"Waste Of Time" if you are starting a new group. Had over two hundred members, arranged three public meetings in restaurants, not one person came, despite a few responses, over two years. I wrote again and again to my member list, sent "love" messages of thanks to everyone who joined - NADA. Remember: that's with more than two hundred people who signed up. Trying to end the subscription now and have to go through many hoops to do so. I feel like I'm in Meetup purgatory. (I think it's fine if you ALREADY have a steady, loyal group that has been meeting for a while and just want to possibly get new members. Wish I could take back my time and money. Zilch results for me.

I've used Meetup successfully over the past two years and never had anything but good things to say about it. That is until I got an email today about this #Resist movement. Seriously, what were you thinking Meetup? I have always valued your site as one that transcended petty political affiliations and was focused on providing an outlet for all viewpoints. To take a side so blatantly and give support to certain voices is beyond inappropriate for a site such as yours.

Terrible platform and even worse customer support. On 2 occasions I have made a mistake creating a profile on Meetup.com. Two years ago and then just recently my profile has been blocked and removed under their "suspected spam" when all I was doing was sending a few messages not many and sending to group organizers not members suggesting an event. My profile isn't a company or soliciting anything. Each time I have wasted 2 years building my account only to have it removed and no one in meetup will answer why this happened or assist with recovery. Just no answers to my repeated requests for assistance. I don't think they employ any real humans on the other end of this platform... DON'T waste your time here.

Beware extroverts who've lived in the UK for a long time (or are from the UK) with no friends! Plenty of them on meetup, once you befriend them you will understand their toxic personality is the root cause.

Yep many male organizers who are only interested in talking to the attractive women. One even set up a women's group where's the organizer... dodgy AF.

Lots of desperate men and women looking for a relationship. Many bad tempered and socially inept hosts.

I'm honestly just trying to make some normal friends.

If you do enough you will probably meet some normal people.

I just rejoined with a new email and profile setup after years of hiatus, to a ridiculously deadweight platform (truly) Somehow getting emails from the older inactive account, despite creating the new one. The link reopening that "defunct" account - requesting a password reset, which I obviously cannot do. And NO actual support available to fix this. Just a lame page of useless icons with canned irrelevant questions. No actual ticket you can file. Wow - for 2022 post-pandemic, they sure seemed a great worthy in reviving, for getting reconnected. *sigh*

For many months now, I have had nothing but headaches trying to get their new Stripe payout system to work. All they do is send me links to their stupid unhelpful non relevant support articles. I see money sitting in my stripe account and cannot get it to my bank account. Days go by before anyone responds to an email. How can a company charge $180 a year to use their service with zero support behind it. Completely fed up with this company. Very disappointing.

Sigh. I thought, naively, that Meetup would take up where other social media platforms left off, but it's essentially become another Twitter platform. While it was created originally to facilitate face to face, real time meetings, it appears as yet another, tired, on-line space that is as vacuous as all the rest.

Here's an article that may shed light on where this is going. https://www.wired.com/story/why-wework-is-buying-meetup/

Once again meet up has made major changes to their service delivery without allowing customers input or the ability to customize. A few years ago they changed the entire system and thousands of people left. This week and they introduced a new app without asking if we wanted the changes or our input as customers. The new app is counterintuitive, difficult to navigate, impossible to search or adjust search parameters, full of information I don't want to see, and missing key features that I really liked about the old app. I'm sure this new App will drive away thousands of more customers. These people excel at shooting themselves in the foot. Someone should start a competing service. Sucks!