Meetup for Organizers

Overpriced and expensive app that organizers are obligated to pay for a faulty product where I can’t even edit the text descriptions without it getting scrambled or worse, crashing the app completely. I just updated this today in December 2024 and its still not working

It was released 4 days ago but keeps kicking me out. I have to use the web version.

I have multiple large Meetup groups (thousands of members in each) and have been paying Meetup for an organizer subscription since 2017. This app and their website are absolutely awful and not dependable. Currently, I cannot even post a new event on the app without getting a glitch saying to “Check my network settings” - despite my wifi and every app working fine. There is always an issue and it’s also extremely annoying to have to have an extra app outside Meetup as an organizer anyways. The website also doesn’t let me post events without just a blank screen coming up. The customer service is zero. Most users on Meetup are trolls. I do not recommend becoming an organizer for any group through the Meetup platform.

I’ve used the regular Meetup app for awhile now and was inspired to start my own group. I foolishly did not listen to all of the organizers of meetup groups I’ve joined about how awful this app is. This is the least user friendly app I have ever used. In case I’m just stupid, I asked my software engineer husband to help me and he also couldn’t figure out this app. You have to sign in on a desktop to change your profile picture which is a massive undertaking in of itself…so why even have an app if you have to log onto desktop to complete basic tasks?!?? The organizer app is so bad that I unfortunately just decided to give up on starting my own group.

The new app is not intuitive and is difficult to navigate. Couple this with almost doubling the annual fee means this long time user will not be renewing.

Can’t hardly do anything in this app. There not even a way to ask for help. Really frustrating for a new organizer and a total turnoff. I’m ready to just give up on this. They keep pushing me to upgrade but I’m so fed up why would I even entertain the idea of paying when the experience has been so bad this far. Really Meetup? You used to be great but now you just ask for money at every turn. So sad.

The app glitches a lot… especially when writing details for events. It will auto paste previous event details into the box as you are typing. Also there are things you can’t do on the app that you just do on a computer which isn’t the most convenient. I feel like everything you can do in the meetup app with out the organizer app… it’s kinda weird.

This app has been a lot of trouble since I started. this app often tells me that I am not connected to the Internet. Which is not true. It has a lot of glitches often enough, and not helpful to an organizer.

Hard to edit event details. Can set a recurring event to recur weekly or monthly, but can’t set recurrence to every 7 weeks.

This is by far the buggiest app I use. When you’re writing an event description, it will randomly copy everything you’ve written and and paste it into your description so you have everything double. When you are creating an event, as you move through entering information for the different parts, it will randomly change things you’ve entered like the time of the event, the day of the event, whether or not people can bring guests, etc. Unless you are extremely careful in checking and rechecking everything multiple times over the course of creating the event, you are likely to post an event with incorrect information. There is no reason that I should have to enter the settings for my event, have the app randomly change them, and then have to re-enter them.