Meetup

I am a leader of a mental health advocacy group, and wanted to use MU to gather people in our rural areas applying as a PAID member. Meet Up rejected my application, but continued to send spam wanting me to join their forum. NO THANKS, you just rejected me, but hey, us people who have a tendency to be more vocal than you "normal" people (ha ha lol sure if you believe it), we are vocal because we get pushed aside at every turn. We are lumped into one type of person and suddenly when you have this horrendous label called "mental illness" that society has hatefully tagged us with, it's scary when your rights quickly deminish and you find yourself pretty much alone. Don't anyone even dare say they MIGHT be depressed otherwise you may have people trying to get you to the hospital. Over two years ago I made the horrendous mistake of "confiding" in my neighbor that i was severely depressed. Prior to that dreadful conversation that I regret having, we shared a wonderful friendship as far as distant neighbors can go including Christmas gift exchange. Now she won't talk to me and peers out windows as if she should be afraid. Can anyone understand how horrible this is to endure when I have a Master's degree and helped many many people in my former career? I'm far more advanced than this neighbor, BUT for the label I have now, she believes she should fear me? I've had a rude awakening as now I know exactly how mentally ill people are treated, and Meet Up is just another business who would rather not have us less desirable types on their forum. I will never associate with Meet Up for any reason or any purpose or any group. Meet Up Discriminates! Does anyone know of a competitor that would allow a mental illness advocacy group on their forum? We really could use the help in getting the word out to folks who have nobody to talk to in rural areas so they are not feeling so alone. Thx

The old calendar that allowed you to scroll through all the events by day and time was WAY better. Hate the new app.

Meetup keeps taking organizer tools so you'll have to pay for the Meetup Pro App! I'll move to another site before I pay them more money!

They will charge you for nothing, then the support will tell you it's ok and deny any refund... It's such a scam website, you better avoid it.

Avoid becoming an organizer for Meetup.org. It is difficult to resign as an organizer and stop payments. I smell a scam.

I sure hope another company steps in and starts offering what Meetup started with, but putting back features they took away that we all wanted, and fixing things they seem to keep breaking. It doesn't work from an organizer side, and doesn't work from a user side either. I'm baffled how you can ONLY leave a review of a group when you ARE a member, you leave a bad review, the organizer can just throw you off. I got removed from a group for nothing more than having a startle reaction to the organizer coming up and jabbing me with her hand, I explained my reaction was due to having fibromyalgia, didn't even raise my voice, and told her not to worry about it, next thing I know I'm banned from the group for "yelling" at her! Think Meetup cares? Or leaves me a way to warn other people that this organizer discriminates against people with disabilities? Nope. There is NO way to contact an organizer to even ask them to explain their decision or give an explanation, once they decide to throw you out for the most ridiculous of reasons. On the organizer side of things, we HATE that people can't decide whether to have a "maybe" option for RSVPing anymore, to better judge attendance, and notifications are spotty at best. Communication options with your groups are just terrible. Comments posted to the group are so limited in size as to be useless, but discussion group threads often missed by the majority of people. So little of the site is user-friendly, they badly need to listen to the people that use the site about what is wrong and fix it because right now they basically seem to just not care about how much everyone is struggling to keep groups running. We've had multiple groups this year shut down because people just are having so much trouble using the site and then not coming to events that organizers can't get dues to pay for their usage of it. Without a free plan to help get small groups going, I don't see many new ones starting after people have seen so many of them fail. People don't want to pay dues for a group they don't know is going to be around long-term, and the fact that Meetup bases it on the number of members in the group and not how many actually ATTEND events alone is a thing they should look at changing.

Shame, allowed fake news to destroy a good service. Any service provider needs to listen and support. Not pick sides.

Pushing their political agenda. It pops up as soon as you click on the website to join their group to resist. Absolutely ridiculous.

I do not recommend. Website is not user friendly. Unable to speak directly with reps to resolve issues.

Can't find a way to send a message to meetup "help" to change the city I live in. Seriously, this should not be this difficult!

Worst thing that ever happened to meet up. It takes ages to do anything. And then it simply can't do others. I hate it.

Setting up a meetup group was easy. Paying was easy. After that, nothing was easy, and support was slow. On line help was dense. Very frustrating.

I was looking forward for a few months now to go to a meetup group in toronto its for a nightclub. She has a strict rule that if you dont show up 3 times your out of the group. Well it also said if you need to cancel and you cant come to the event you need to cancel before 48 hours or its one strike. I canceled 3 days before 48 hrs because i had an important family event i wasnt aware of. So i rsvped no. Instead of just letting it go because i followed her rules and canceled before 48 hrs she messages me, starting arguement. She said why am i canceling after i was asking her lots of questions about the event so i told her why and she didnt understand that in life things come up. She wasnt being fair because i did cancel when i was suppose too and she said im not welcome to her groups anymore. I told her as a host you should be patient and polite to your group members and help them out. She didnt care at all. Other groups i joined they are very friendly. Whats the point to have a meetup group if you cant respect members. I guess just because your a organizer it gives you a right to bully others. I reported her to meetup but i dont know what they can do about it. Im sure other people had that experience as well. She wasnt even respecting her own policy.so i quit her groups. I was suspicious of her because when i asked her questions about the event her answers were very short and she sounded annoyed. I wouldnt feel safe if i had to meetup with her. I didnt want to put her name up on public forum. People do need to watch out which groups they join. There are alot of dangerous people out there.

The pictures on the main screen is way too small. The app is totally frustrating. Bring back the prior app!

Anyone can easily join a resist site
Anyone can easily cancel their meetings
Anyone can easily leave the group.

In that order...

Staunchly oppose the anti-american, pro-terrorist rhetoric this group espouses. Take it somewhere else.

Yep, on February 13 they insulted half the country for absolutely no purpose. Great job guys! Clearly, only certain kinds of people are welcome.

I would not join or ever pay for a group on this site.
You can't share your opinion without censorship and removal.

I don't even know what to say... they are methodically disabling everything that made Meetup great for such a long time

They have made it extremely difficult to cancel subscriptions. You are billed even after cancelling a subscription.

Can you say adulterous men preying on desperate women? Pretty much the purpose behind these groups. For loser only.

Meetups setting up these Resist groups deeply upsets me. Firstly whatever your belief system I think it is best for companies to stay non political.

But lets unpack what Meetup are supporting. I am traditionally leftwing and consider myself a feminist, I am pro choice, and I also feel very sorry for the Syrian and Iraqi refugees, and I do understand that some innocent people will be caught up in this Muslim ban, and yes I have many reservations about Trump, but at the same time many Muslims around the world are practicing extremely oppressive practices against women, gays, apostates, people of other faiths etc, and there is also the problem of increasing Islamic terrorism.

I have increasingly seen my leftwing and feminist networks hijacked by Islamic extremists who are there for their own purposes. Case in point, Linda Sarsour Co-Chair of the Womens March supports sharia law, and has tweeted in the past that she would like to give Ayaan Hirsi Ali an a*** whipping and take away her vag*na. Hard to believe but true (google it). Particularly cruel considering Ayaan was a victim of female genital mutilation and is currently lives with a fatwa death sentence over her head.

When Meetup takes the side of Islamic extremists then it is obvious to me that they consider my rights as a woman as negligible. And its an incredible double standard for Meetup to decry Trump but support those who support the oppression of womens rights and human rights violations. But of course if I object to the subjugation of my own sex I am called a bigot.

This was a good service once, but that was before Scott Heiferman decided to provide infrastructure and organization to the violent protests we see today. #NoMeetup #NoAntifa #CivilRightsForAll