Weekly Release, January 28, 2009

Maya Meetup	Posted Jan 27, 2009 3:56 PM Link to this discussion
Maya_Meetup Meetup Group Product Manager Brooklyn, NY Post #: 174	Hi everyone, The team at HQ is busy at work on some exciting new features for you. Until those things are ready for prime time, we've been working hard on making some feature enhancements and fixing bugs. Launching on Wednesday, January 28 is the following: Feature enhancements: * Customizing the appearance of a Meetup Group with themes is a great way to establish a group's personality, and now organizers will see the "customize your group" feature right when they Start a Meetup Group. So now new organizers (or those on their second or third groups :) will be able to immediately set the tone and personality of their group (s). * If you schedule a paid Meetup event (regardless of how you're accepting payment), you can now manually mark people as paid and keep track of your members' payments status on your Meetup group. (Amazon Payments will get added automatically, PayPal and cash/check you'll need to do manually). Your members will not see each other's payment status. * If you charge your members dues or donations (or whatever you want to call them - cuz you can call them whatever you want, you know :), you can now add payment information right on the member list or right from that member's profile page. * You can now set your default currency in Group Settings (Group Settings > Optional Features). Your currency preference will then get passed on when/if you set up Dues and when/if you set up paid Meetup events. What's so great about that, you ask? Well, it saves you a step, and it lays the foundation for some fun new stuff you'll hear about soon. * And for our fellow developers, we’ve enhanced the Meetup API to now include a 'myrsvp' field as part of Events data to indicate members’ RSVP responses for events. Bug fixes (and behind-the-scenes stuff, too): * Meetup Badges for other web sites: Fixed the countdown date and accented characters. * Fixed incorrect “spots left” number appearing on the Change RSVP page * Fixed special characters sometimes throwing off keyword searching * Fixed exporting to Calendar sometimes displaying the wrong time if the event is in a different time zone than your group. * Fixed link on Organizer Checklist tip * Fixed “Email members” email sometimes going to ex-group members if you target the email to people who attended a certain Meetup. * Fixed RSVP questions sometimes being attributed to the wrong event Organizer * Polls page: fixed the error if you don’t select anything. * Fixed long message board posts sometimes causing errors * Fixed IE7 layout issue relating to events using Amazon Payments Thanks, Maya Edited by Maya Meetup on Jan 28, 2009 8:49 AM
Amy	Posted Jan 28, 2009 7:09 AM Link to this reply
Emma_N_Max_Mommy Chicago, IL Post #: 1,161	Great! Thanks! Issue though: This new update has all the images that were posted using tags on the subject for our message board threads not showing up anymore but just displaying the links. Our message board looks awful right now and we just got a new member! UGH!!
JeN	Posted Jan 28, 2009 7:13 AM Link to this reply
3.of.a.kind Rochester, NH Post #: 3,846	Great! Thanks! Issue though: This new update has all the images that were posted using tags on the subject for our message board threads not showing up anymore but just displaying the links. Our message board looks awful right now and we just got a new member! UGH!! Ditto my message board is a mess of jumbled photobucket links. Looks awful :( Please tell us this can be fixed soon!!
~~CJ~~	Posted Jan 28, 2009 7:37 AM Link to this reply
Da1BhindDaCamera Youngstown, OH Post #: 17,395	Great! Thanks! Issue though: This new update has all the images that were posted using tags on the subject for our message board threads not showing up anymore but just displaying the links. Our message board looks awful right now and we just got a new member! UGH!! LOL, it's the little thing... driving me nuts too. I'm sure you've already heard from 100's of us though and it will be fixed ASAP.
Greg Whalin	Posted Jan 28, 2009 7:56 AM Link to this reply
greg_w Meetup Staff Brooklyn, NY Post #: 790	Yikes! Unintended consequence of a bug fix we put in. We will get this fixed ASAP!
FrancEs P	Posted Jan 28, 2009 8:50 AM Link to this reply
The-Night-Owl Madison, AL Post #: 6,929	BUG: I am trying to add membership dues to a specific person from their profile, when I click the link it takes me to the " Your meetup groups" page. ETA: never mind, now it seems to be working, with a new pop up box, just a glitch I guess lol Edited by FrancEs P on Jan 28, 2009 8:51 AM
Maya Meetup	Posted Jan 28, 2009 8:59 AM Link to this reply
Maya_Meetup Meetup Group Product Manager Brooklyn, NY Post #: 176	BUG: I am trying to add membership dues to a specific person from their profile, when I click the link it takes me to the " Your meetup groups" page. ETA: never mind, now it seems to be working, with a new pop up box, just a glitch I guess lol Frances, what browser are you using? And Mac or PC?
FrancEs P	Posted Jan 28, 2009 9:03 AM Link to this reply
The-Night-Owl Madison, AL Post #: 6,934	AOL and a PC
Maya Meetup	Posted Jan 28, 2009 9:11 AM Link to this reply
Maya_Meetup Meetup Group Product Manager Brooklyn, NY Post #: 177	AOL and a PC K, thanks. We'll look into it.
Heather!	Posted Jan 28, 2009 10:58 AM Link to this reply
RegansMomma Broussard, LA Post #: 8,171	I too wanted to make sure someone had reported the thread images being in link form! At least I'm not the only one! BTW, I just wanted to add, I don't get on here much butt I haven't thanked Meetup or it's staff in a while! I have had my group for going on 4 1/2 years and it just gets better and better with all the improvement!! Yall have made my job progressively easier!! I appreciate all yall do! Keep up the good work!! Hugs!