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Meetup.com is a truly horrible site and corporation. They hold your meetup group hostage if you're an organizer. What do I mean by that? Since you have no conta

Meetup.com is a truly horrible site and corporation. They hold your meetup group hostage if you're an organizer. What do I mean by that? Since you have no contact information for any of your attendees, you can't reach out to them to move them to another platform. You can't shut down your Meetup either. Instead, you can simply resign as an organizer. This allows someone else to step in and take over. Taking all the hard work you did to create the meetup and giving it to someone else. It would be nice if Meetup could give you the contact information of all your members and also allow you to close a group without allowing anyone else to step in. In this way, they hold your group hostage, not allowing you to leave, and thus committing you forever for their fees, even if you never run another event again.

morningseagulls 7y ago
>Since you have no contact information for any of your attendees, you can't reach out to them to move them to another platform. >It would be nice if Meetup could give you the contact information of all your members Meetup has a spam problem, as greggman2 has pointed out.[0] Your proposal would make that worse. >This allows someone else to step in and take over. Taking all the hard work you did to create the meetup and giving it to someone else. Believe it or not, some people think this is a feature. I know of groups where the original organizer(s) had to leave the locality for various reasons, but designated successor(s) to keep the group going. >allow you to close a group without allowing anyone else to step in. Yes, that'd be good to have. >They hold your meetup group hostage if you're an organizer. Yes, all these contributed to lock-in, but some of these were features that some people wanted in the past, or at least that's my impression from using the site for many years. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21266422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21266422

morningseagulls 7y ago

>Since you have no contact information for any of your attendees, you can't reach out to them to move them to another platform. >It would be nice if Meetup could give you the contact information of all your members Meetup has a spam problem, as greggman2 has pointed out.[0] Your proposal would make that worse. >This allows someone else to step in and take over. Taking all the hard work you did to create the meetup and giving it to someone else. Believe it or not, some people think this is a feature. I know of groups where the original organizer(s) had to leave the locality for various reasons, but designated successor(s) to keep the group going. >allow you to close a group without allowing anyone else to step in. Yes, that'd be good to have. >They hold your meetup group hostage if you're an organizer. Yes, all these contributed to lock-in, but some of these were features that some people wanted in the past, or at least that's my impression from using the site for many years. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21266422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21266422