Constant nagging notifications & emails!! I keep turning more and more things off, unsubscribing to newsletters I didn't sign up for, and it still bugs me. "Discounts" offered constantly and aren't very good deals. Heaven forbid if you RSVP for an event you will get a "gift"🙄 and they will never stop nagging you about it. If it wasn't because there is a particular group that I'm involved with that uses this app, I would never download it.
Reviews for Meetup: Social Events & Groups
The app became very bad after recent updates. I cannot see who is going on a meetup with me. I cannot see the events I registered for on a different device. I cannot click on user (it says unexpected error occurs). Some of this is behind pay wall but some are just bugs. Many organizers have left within the last couple weeks. The app went downhill so quickly, it's so sad.
Great easy to stay in the know of what's going on around you. Keeps you social, trying new things, around new people... just an overall fun and cool idea for an app. I would prefer push notifications over emails. Toooo many emails. Also, wish you didn't have to limit your activities that you like. I'm multifaceted and doing like to be boxed into categories.
Maybe it's just me but from all 3 phones I've used so far. The app is garbage when it comes to "photo upload". The hit or miss is so frustrating. Once the first few pictures are uploaded, that's it...the trouble continues again with the next few pictures. A whole bunch of refresh and you can tell the number of photos shown that is already uploaded fluctuate every time. The only sure way for me has been to always transfer the photos to my laptop then upload them that way or else...headache.
This app is now just a backup for me for finding events to attend. The UI hasn't ever been great. But it didn't need to be. Now paywalling key features? I don't get enough value from Meetup to pay for it. Now, every time I open the app, I get closer to just deleting my account. Good job! Additionally, I can't even navigate the desktop site without getting stuck at a pop-up that won't let me leave without subscribing or closing the window completely. But supply and demand. Hope there's demand.
It's a great app and I love the ability to meet new people with similar interests. I'm giving it a one star to draw attention to a problem I've been having: when joining a new group, I am unable to press the 'Continue' button after answering the questions that some groups request before joining. I am unable to join any group that has qualification questions (on the Android app).
The app used to work well. But they never updated their messaging system to be on par with other messaging apps. Notifications might get sent, but then the message isn't real-time. Or messages may never get sent, or get copied too many times. Connections could be a great way to filter people out and white list them, but I don't think the developers are thinking of that. Website is also buggy, and errors pop up all the time.
In the base app, features like member search and member chat, now sit behind a paywall. Every time you access a group, the paywall request pops up. The cost of the "pay" features is ridiculously expensive. There are not even preferences. Recently, it started defaulting to the Explore tab, rather than the Home tab, with no means to change it. It used to be a great program. Now it is barely usable.
This app is extremely slow and often is not user-friendly. I have you use the back guesture to go back a screen as pressing the arrow to go back does not work. it is very cumbersome going back and forth through the screens to try to get where I need to be. Fur the can stay of running a group this app should be more up to date with a better UI that is functional and worthwhile to spend time on.
The fee you have to pay in order to chat with members is outrageous and offensive, especially when the app doesn't work that great, difficult to search for events, notifications are excessive yet do not always lead to useful information, etc. If individual users have to pay fees, why do groups have to pay additional fees to be on meetup? Then the groups have to ask people for donations. No noticable improvement has been made since the app charges fees. It is just a disappointment.