New in January (2008)

I do want to clarify that many of the items available in your Meetup Shop are completely customizable and you have total control in customizing those items..

What about REMOVING IT FROM THE MEETUP PAGE? Is that customizable? Can you please clarify how to customize it *off* view from the Meetup page?

What about REMOVING IT FROM THE MEETUP PAGE? Is that customizable? Can you please clarify how to customize it *off* view from the Meetup page?

Brian, nope, you can't turn it off. Like I've said, this is at the top of our list to deal with!

Thank you for adding this to your list of things to deal with. I hope that it is sooner than later but I do appreciate that Meetup is listening.

So now our events are no longer called events, but meetings instead? Yuck! As a Movie EVENT Organizer, I think the word EVENT has a little more gusto and purpose to it, dontcha think?

Why in the heck was this changed? We don't have meetings, we have events! A Moms' Night Out Meeting, a Playgroup Meeting, a Wine Tasting Meeting, etc. Those just don't sound good. They sound rather hoity-toity, don't ya think?

Now I have to go update my pages and change all references from Events to Meetings.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Arrrrggggghhhh!

Michele

Wow, I can't believe that "meeting" thing flew by me...

I run a singles group and we definitely have "events"...a movie night isn't a "meeting"...a happy hour isn't a meeting...a day of snow tubing isn't a meeting..

Why not say "rate this meetup" or "discuss this meetup" instead of meeting...if you are going to change event?

I have to agree with the masses on this one *gasp* I know...but meeting sounds BORING and not like something I'd want to attend if I was single lookin' to get my fun on ya know?

Please change this back...what we do ... the meetups we hold..they are events...or meetups...but NOT meetings!

Wow, I can't believe that "meeting" thing flew by me...

I run a singles group and we definitely have "events"...a movie night isn't a "meeting"...a happy hour isn't a meeting...a day of snow tubing isn't a meeting..

Why not say "rate this meetup" or "discuss this meetup" instead of meeting...if you are going to change event?

I have to agree with the masses on this one *gasp* I know...but meeting sounds BORING and not like something I'd want to attend if I was single lookin' to get my fun on ya know?

Please change this back...what we do ... the meetups we hold..they are events...or meetups...but NOT meetings!

How does someone take minutes for a 'meeting' held at the movies?

What about REMOVING IT FROM THE MEETUP PAGE? Is that customizable? Can you please clarify how to customize it *off* view from the Meetup page?

Brian, nope, you can't turn it off. Like I've said, this is at the top of our list to deal with!

Ok, I do want to thank Meetup for keeping this at the top of their list, but what exactly does that mean?? When and HOW will this be rectified? I need a clearer more concise answer than "at the top of our list". I have heard that from Meetup before, and that meant 2-3 weeks later (if not longer), I am not ok with that.

I recently spent a lot of time, effort, money, and a bit of sanity, working with a graphic designer to re-vamp our logo. After much deliberation, and what I am sure was a completely frustrated-ready-to-KILL-ME graphic designer, my logo was finally complete.

After that I took the time to go through EVERY SINGLE item in my cafe press store to ensure that the logo was just right on everything. I then took the time to make my logo prominent on every page of my site, order new business cards, and finally promote my store to my group.

One of the ways that we plan to do this it to have a Secret Sister gift exchange where each person will receive an item from the store under $25. So when I roll this event out, are you to tell me that you don't think those "less than tech savvy" members might confuse your little "buy me! buy me!" t-shirt logo for something that I endorse???

And by the way, this will be an EVENT, not a meeting. What the heck is with that change?? C'mon guys, Meetup rocks for the most part, you can do better than THAT!!

What about REMOVING IT FROM THE MEETUP PAGE? Is that customizable? Can you please clarify how to customize it *off* view from the Meetup page?

Brian, nope, you can't turn it off. Like I've said, this is at the top of our list to deal with!

Not true, what you said was:

All of that said, we see why this new link to the Meetup Shop would create confusion for those of you who already have your own shops. We will absolutely put that toward the top of our list of stuff to get done.

There is a very big difference in something being 'towards the top' of a list, and it being top of the list.
This is not just semantics, it is attitude.
"Wow, we screwed up there, get it off the page now", is very different to, "They are never satisfied, I guess we will have to consider changing that.".

I feel the latter is the attitude that emanates from meetup. Every time I start to believe you really do listen, I am shown someone with their fingers in their ears shouting La la la.

Why on earth was this rolled out only days after this .

Lead us to believe we are about to get one thing, but instead surprise the hell out of us with prime location advertising that directly competes with things arranged by organisers who pay for the privilege of having meetup experiment on them.

One month we got some forewarning, then we return to the sneak-attack method because someone never learned the lessons of the past.

WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. Not just some of you! Wake the entire company up to face reality. We have been looking for a viable alternative to meetup simply because meetup does out of the blue random bad stuff to us. You have a great platform, but seem determined to kill it instead of addressing its flaws.

There should be a mandatory requirement for any new brooms brought in, to read back through the complaints about previous disastrous roll-outs. They should be made to learn the lessons of history BEFORE they repeat them. The wise learn from the mistakes of others, and do not have to make all the mistakes themselves. WISE UP.

If you are going to randomly change what events are called, why did you not do the intelligent thing, and make it an organiser setting, just as the setting that says what members are called. Stop foisting these changes on us without consultation. There are a lot of us who use the platform whose opinions you dilligently ignore. It was bad enough you took away the events lists for so long and removed the events link to be replaced by the calendar link. Now you even take away Events and replace them with meetings. Why not call the bloody things SHOUTS, it makes as much sense.

If I were able to give the January 2008 downgrade a star rating it would have a -2. No stars, just black-holes.

Len

If I were able to give the January 2008 downgrade a star rating it would have a -2. No stars, just black-holes.

I'd give it a downgrade star rating of -10. No stars, either. Awful, awful, awful.

And this is another case of blatant favoritism from Meetup staff. Remember how quickly ('quickly,' as in a matter of hours) they fixed the RSVP-comments/events-comments glitch? A few Most Favored Power Organizers complained, *their* complaints were the ones the mattered, and the rest of us are still at the little kids' table. I just wish I knew why Meetup staff treats everyone other than their favorite power orgs with such contempt.

In the interest of treating *everyone* equally (something a still-nonexistent Organizer Bill of Rights would address), perhaps you can un-fix the RSVP comments upgrade until you decide whether you'll ever get around to fixing the Meetup Store eyesore. Just a thought....