let's meetup and stay in touch

February 1, 2012 7:00 AM - 1 attended

About Us! Find Out What's Happening in Some people's heads.

Selected By: A former member

“We want to know more about what's happening in "let's meetup and stay in touch" This can be an optional place to create navigation for our site.”

Here are some links to various pages on our site.

Members are more than welcome to work with the idea, but please use this as a serious tool for this focused purpose and not as a play thing. Since there is html capability, there should be a lot of flexibility.

Do not change the date or place.

For those of you with coding skills, see if you can add links to images, and whatever you can think of.

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Ian McIntosh
Feel free to play around with this "Event" The concept is to create an alternate form of navigation for the site.

Posted February 7, 2011 at 4:15 PM
John
Thank you Ian for getting this started.

Posted February 9, 2011 at 8:44 AM
A former member
I got suspended from the Organizer's Forum :-(
I posted a whole bunch of links of other groups proving how the "new meetup" does not work... and I suggested on Scott's group that we change the venue for their next "meetup in the making" to Miami Beach since the weather is better here.

Posted February 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM
A former member
I changed the location for this Meetup

Posted February 11, 2011 at 8:16 AM | 1 like
A former member
@Shani: Those MUHQ types are such a humorless bunch.

Posted February 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM
A former member
It's quite amazing... They wanna mess with our groups and make it as ugly and dysfunctional as they please without our consent, but oh no we cannot mess with theirs one little bit...!! I merely joined Scott's group, WROTE a comment on the "meetup in the making" suggesting a venue change to Miami Beach (didn't actually do the change, even though I could since it only took 2 clicks to join). The comment was quickly deleted and I was deleted from the group... how nice!

Posted February 11, 2011 at 8:50 AM | 1 like
A former member
Hi Shani, I see you're here too. I guess they don't really walk the talk: "Empower the users". VERY little tolerance for user input in NY.

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:26 AM
A former member
Hi Shani, I was wondering what happened to that thread you had.

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:37 AM
A former member
Yeah, several of my contributions disappeared too :-(

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:39 AM
A former member
Yup, same here, really annoying. This new meetup is such a huge f up !!!!!

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:53 AM
A former member
Well, so that comment I posted on Scott's group was sent to every single member of his group? That is shocking! Someone can join so easily and then have the opportunity not only to change a meetup, but also to spam the entire group, WOW !!!

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM
John
If anyone is offended by the title of this meetup, don't get mad, just change it.

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:56 AM
John
Ian, can you please take a look at this and . . . do whatever you feel like?

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:58 AM
A former member
And you can change your preferences on email so you won't get the comments! Just go to your group profile and select "Edit Communication Preferences"

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:58 AM
John
It's interesting to see that the activity feed here shows who changed the location, but not the title.

Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:59 AM
A former member
Who changed the title? wasn't me... lol prove it otherwise!

Posted February 11, 2011 at 10:07 AM
John
I've temporarily turned the feature thing off.

Posted February 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Sno-King
Does everyone still have another service they are working with for there groups?

Posted January 31 at 10:54 AM
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John
Founder, I pay for this group (in more ways than one), Organizer

Menlo Park, CA

Founded Feb 2, 2011

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On Jan. 27th, 2011, Meetup.com launched a secret project code named 'Mayhem Mode'.

They substituted the user interface of their platform with a new one. They called this new user interface 'newmeetup'. Later it was revealed that this substitution was the outcome of a secret project. It was also acknowledged that this switch would cause some meetup groups to 'fail'.

They made a wholesale change the user interface of meetup groups around the world. Many organizers were very upset with this and many threatened to leave meetup altogether and move their groups to other platforms. About 2% of these organizers found a 'hidden in plain sight' discussion forum and let everyone know what they thought.

Many others realized that moving their groups would be difficult and would potentially negate all of the work they had done over the lifetime of their groups.

What could they do?

I decided to create this site as a place for the organizers and other web developers to gather and experiment with the new user interface. Many organizers did not want to experiment with their sites, and that is very understandable. The new interface had a ton of bugs in it, and most organizers are not interested in implementing some of the options in the new interface, let alone subject their groups to the bug ridden launch.

This is the place to join (for free) a *newmeetup* group. It is set to what Meetup HQ describes as "low moderation mode", so guess what? you are in charge and I *just* pay for it.

Have fun with it.

Visit the discussion forums to get an understanding of what happens in 'low moderation mode'.

If you are an organizer who intends to move your group to another platform, then this is the place to stay in touch with other meetup organizers and share with them your experience.

If you are a web developer, then this is the place to interact with meetup organizers who are looking for solutions to a problem that was imposed on them.

This group represents a new social network. A network of passionate organizers who created groups using the Meetup platform. A network of people who were successful with that platform and are looking to improve upon it.