Meetup: Social Events & Groups

How is this rated 4.5+ with mostly negative reviews for at least a year? Worsening Paywalls, increasingly common group subscriptions, bad ui, weak search. Had some promise when emerging from the pandemic. I’m a single 30-something that doesn’t drink socially, and also does not work 9-5. Within half an hour, it’s socially dominated by young families, 55+, and heavy drinkers. Driving over an hour to meet with people I don’t know to do stuff I don’t really want to do is unappealing. Worse, some groups disallow dating between members (discriminatory to demiromantics and related). Weird, can’t stop the search from showing women only, single by choice, and lesbian groups. Only group I look at regularly now is almost half an hour away, and don’t need this app to keep up with them…

I am only interested in local events and I have to dig through all the online events. It won’t let me filter them out.

Deleted this garbage app in mid March and given the recent reviews I made the right choice. Why anyone would pay money for it is insane.

like why would we be paying to advertise events that’s so stupid no one uses the apps anymore and have moved on to discord this is so sad

Too many core features are locked behind the paid version, and the price is ridiculously high. I’d pay $50/year, but definitely not $100+. You’re losing potential customers with these prices. This app could be so much better and well worth it. But asking me to upgrade to paid every time I click a button is more annoying than anything. Meetup should be about helping people connect in person, not taking advantage of them.

Retaliation, automated bans, zero human review this is a dangerous platform Review: Meetup is running a moderation system that punishes the user who reports violations instead of the user who commits them. I reported a clear Terms of Service violation, exactly as their own policy instructs users to do. Instead of investigating, they blocked my account and fabricated the accusation that I “abused reporting features.” No examples, no timestamps, no evidence, just nothing. This is retaliation, pure and simple. And it gets worse. When they blocked my original account, they also disabled the only official channel to contact support. So I used a second account ONLY to communicate with them. I didn’t join groups, didn’t attend events, didn’t message anyone, but I used it strictly to talk to support because they shut down the official channel. Their response? They blocked the second account too, claiming “multiple accounts to circumvent a ban,” even though the only thing I did was reply to their own ticket. This is the definition of a platform that prefers to eliminate the problem instead of doing the work required by their own policies. Their own policy says users should report misconduct. I did. They retaliated. Twice. Every reply I received was automated. No human review. No investigation. No transparency. No accountability. Just a bot repeating the same template while ignoring the evidence directly in front of them. This violates multiple App Store guidelines and specifically: 1) unfair treatment of users 2) abusive account termination 3) retaliation for reporting misconduct 4) lack of human review in moderation 5) Failure to provide a functional support channel Meetup is not enforcing safety BUT punishing the people who try to keep the platform safe. This is a dangerous and irresponsible moderation model, and Apple should review the developer’s practices immediately.

Can’t pick location

There is an option to rate app easily accessed but I can’t seem to find a way to tell this app that I’m not looking for other men in dating meetups. Also, I don’t know when it switched but it did on its own. I try to search “Straight” meet ups or dating woman, it bring the gay meet ups again. What a useless app. On another note, billions of humans on this planet and we need an app to meet each other?

This app sucks. Horrible. It is always trying to trick you into signing up for a pay version!! Awful!

They want $44 minimum a month to start a group. and $10/week to become a "premium member" just so you can get on a waitlist and see who else is going. You cant delete a group once you create one, and you cant delete your account until you transfer ownership of a group you started. dont waste your time. complete reckless greed.