Updates from December

You can edit your comment by clicking on "Change your RSVP".

Why can't they just leave the box like it was before? Why go complicated when you can keep it simple?

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There's also another bug with this update. My group writes everything in French. Before the upgrade, the accents in the comments showed perfectly. Since the upgrade, the accents just show gibberish. Can anyone look into this ? I know Meetup is not designed to accept foreign characters, but it worked before. Now it doesn't. Thanks.

Christina says

Here's what we did NOT do:

3. Photos on the home page in the meeting description. We never intended this as a "feature" - it's something you guys just started using. So the photos you inserted won't appear on the home page (though they'll still appear on the meeting page). However, we have plans to include actual functionality in a future update.

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This basically means LOSING an important capability due to an upgrade. We started using , and it was great. Why isn´t it restored?.

In the past, we could add the photo of the movie POSTER for a movie event or the venue, and that would be shown on the home page. Now due to this upgrade we can´t!. I was told in the past this was a kind of thing that upgrades were trying to avoid.

Thank you soooooo much for promptly restoring our rsvp comments! Whew! And I agree that having to click on 'change your rsvp' to change your rsvp comment is less than desired. I have seniors in my group who had a hard enough time with this....can you at least reword the link to read something along the lines of: 'change your rsvp and/or comment'?

4. We fixed the missing member profile questions for groups that require an Organizer's approval to join.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Such a brilliantly quick response, too!!!! I'm so impressed.

Good timely response to criticism of the release.

I still regret that it had to be in response to criticism. Much better to have actually beta-tested it before release. But better than a kick in the teeth, as we say here.

Len

please take away the automatic "yes" RSVP when I put up a event.. dont like it its annoying when I am trying to bang out my calendar for the month and have to look like I am RSVPING NO to all the events..

why dont you do this instead ..put who POSTED the event.. this way I can see just how much my assistants are REALLY doing..lol

edited cause of mommy brain..

1. Organizer-less events. If someone is hosting an event, they need to be either the Organizer or an assistant Organizer. We understand that this isn't ideal for some Meetups (eg play dates) but we're not going to change this right now. Many of you have suggested some clever partial work-arounds on this board, such as using the "where can you find the Organizer" field to explain. Another possibility is to make the playdate host an assistant Organizer temporarily.

I really wish we could just add a box that says others, that would satisfy probably 100% of the members of every meetup group. There are sooo many that have host that are not organizers regardless of if they are moms group, hobby group, movie group etc that it would be beneficial to have an other and fill in the box with the name.

I do think it would be incredibly ridiculous to make someone an asst org every time they had a playdate. I have 89 members and they have to host 2 events a year, thats to much.

Agreed! Members often suggest events or offer to host something that none of the organizers are able to attend. You're implying that we should discourage this activity (having additional opportunities to meet with members of the group), which seems to contradict the whole spirit of a meetup group. If I make someone a "temporary" AO, she has all the "powers" of an actual AO, which means she can edit more than just the meetup she is hosting. Since the AO names are listed, this would be extremely confusing to all members and a ridiculous amount of additional work for me to keep up with adding and removing members as AOs. If the designate organizer feature can't be user-friendly, then can we please have the option of turning this feature off so we're not stuck with it?

Thank you, thank you, thank you for restoring the comments next to the RSVPs!

Now that I've had a chance to use the attendance feature, I have a suggested change. Instead of having to scroll through different sections of the alphabet for people who RSVPed Yes, it would be much simpler to just have the list as it looked before the event attended. I print out this list to track attendance and it would be so much simpler to just check off the list online. Currently I have to go back and forth between lists to make sure I don't miss anyone. It's a pain for my small group, it must be torture for a large group. Having the No RSVPs in the alphabetical section is fine.

Agreed! Members often suggest events or offer to host something that none of the organizers are able to attend. You're implying that we should discourage this activity (having additional opportunities to meet with members of the group), which seems to contradict the whole spirit of a meetup group. If I make someone a "temporary" AO, she has all the "powers" of an actual AO, which means she can edit more than just the meetup she is hosting. Since the AO names are listed, this would be extremely confusing to all members and a ridiculous amount of additional work for me to keep up with adding and removing members as AOs. If the designate organizer feature can't be user-friendly, then can we please have the option of turning this feature off so we're not stuck with it?

I'm of a different mind on this.

While I can see it's advantages, I prefer to have someone I trust enough to raise to AO status run events.

We made the mistake of setting up an event for a member recently and she didn't even bother to check if the venue was open (they were closed for a private party)

I received so many calls & text messages from irate members plus the event ended up being rated a 1 which could have brought my group down if my other events hadn't worked out well.

I have decided that if a non organizer wants to host an event and myself or an AO are not able to assist we can either post it as a note on the calender or as a message board thread so it doesn't diminish the great work my team puts into the group.

Steve

I have decided that if a non organizer wants to host an event and myself or an AO are not able to assist we can either post it as a note on the calender or as a message board thread so it doesn't diminish the great work my team puts into the group.

Steve

I do the same.
And I agree.

The purpose of checking the organizer is to make sure someone is responsible for the event.