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>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 cou
by 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