Weekly Release: Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Hi Everyone,

We have a handful of bug fixes and enhancements going out Tuesday, May 5, 2009:

• fixed error message display on event pages
  
• fixed map view for venues and event tickets
  
• changing profile photo is now always updated in group comments section
  
• extended payment history to show entire history
  
• fixed - when flagging a page as inappropriate, user returns to inappropriate page
  
• fixed display of apostrophes in member list for Organizers nominating a new Organizer
  
• fixed - members were able to write more than the maximum of 250 characters for RSVP comment area (or during updates to an RSVP).
  
• fixed the button on the language settings page, was getting cut off on the bottom
  
• lots of behind the scene issues improving performance and stability
  

Thanks and let us know if you have any questions or comments.

-Mark

Hey Mark ~

Out of curiosity....do you guys plan to ever install an instant messenger so group members can chat online away from events? I think this would be a great feature to add to meetup.

TracEy

that would be awesome!

Thanks for the super work. Your headline for this message thread has Wednesday May 5 on it, whereas it should be Tuesday May 5th No problemo Right back at ya'!! Its Cinco de Mayo!!!

Hey Mark ~

Out of curiosity....do you guys plan to ever install an instant messenger so group members can chat online away from events? I think this would be a great feature to add to meetup.

TracEy

I can't be so polite-

That would be duh! It's about time you caught up with the 90's.. er... 2000's

Thanks for the super work. Your headline for this message thread has Wednesday May 5 on it, whereas it should be Tuesday May 5th No problemo Right back at ya'!! Its Cinco de Mayo!!!

I guess I was too busy celebrating early on this one ;) Thanks for the heads up.

Hey Mark ~

Out of curiosity....do you guys plan to ever install an instant messenger so group members can chat online away from events? I think this would be a great feature to add to meetup.

TracEy

no need to integrate an IM program into Meetup- there are enough stand-alone programs you can use to chat.
KL

Hey Mark ~

Out of curiosity....do you guys plan to ever install an instant messenger so group members can chat online away from events? I think this would be a great feature to add to meetup.

TracEy

no need to integrate an IM program into Meetup- there are enough stand-alone programs you can use to chat.
KL

I feel the same... Message Boards if you need them, email and about a dozen other programs already out there are fine for instant messaging. I wouldn't WANT to message people on Meetup because that's not the purpose of being here. Remember, "Using the internet to get off the internet" and all.

Hi Mark,

Any chance future updates could be scheduled at a more convenient time? Something like 3 AM on a Sunday? We just moved our group to Meetup a couple of weeks ago. I'm having a little trouble getting buy in from the membership. Most of my members check the site when they get in the office. Which happens to be between 9 and 9:30 AM. This is the second 9 AM update since we've signed up. So of course the site has been completely down twice already. Why 9 AM EST?

John

Hi Mark -

Has there been any progress with changing the location of the sponsors because, as is, the more sponsors a group has the farther down "What's New" goes and rotating the sponsors manually to give them all equal exposure becomes extremely cumbersome.

Thanks.

Rich