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Meetup.com Redesign(meetup.com)
almost 6 years ago from Maria Margarida Silva, mariamargarida.me
Erhan D'Silva, almost 6 years ago
second this ... I organize pick up soccer games and the waitlist issue is huge when you get people showing up and you have no idea the priority of their RSVP.
James Young, almost 6 years ago Apparently many organizers were invited to beta test and were in on the feature development, but Meetup just ignored the feedback and suggestions and did what they wanted anyway.
It saddens me when I hear companies do this :(
As a Meetup user, lots of problems with this redesign.
Descriptions are hidden behind a read more link. I now have to scroll to the bottom of an event page to see who else is attending. Nested comments have been removed. If you want to reply to a specific comment, you have to create a new message which could place it out of context.
I have friends who are organizers, and it's even worse on that side of things. Map locations can no longer be edited. Attendees are added to wait lists in some random order apparently, and not the order in which they signed up. That leaves it up to the organizer to remember on their own who signed up when.
From everything I'm reading, this redesign is being derided by both users and organizers alike. Apparently many organizers were invited to beta test and were in on the feature development, but Meetup just ignored the feedback and suggestions and did what they wanted anyway.