Comment by radius89
1 year ago
> This sounds great. I will mention to some folks I know, that might be able to use it.
Thanks, that'd be awesome!
And that sounds like most of the experiences I've heard - their pricing options really aren't great.
> Once I started posting meetups, though, I started getting a lot of bogus signups. They were clearly bogus, as many had nothing to do with tech, or were unreasonably far away (like New Jersey or Upstate). I suspect most, if not all, were fake profiles. These signups filled the meetups, so I would get like, one real person showing up. All the rest were no-shows.
I know no-shows are a big problem but spam/fake sign-ups - that's a weird one, and not one I'd considered! Was this recently? I'd assume something like this would have been easy to fix by requiring email confirmation on your account sign-up.
Not recently. Years ago. I haven’t had much to do with Meetup.com in ages.
The issue was that these filled up the meetup, so real people would be shown a page, saying the meetup was full, and would they like to be on a waiting list?
I didn’t really want to make people jump through extra hoops, to sign up. It was an obscure topic.
TBH, I was damn pissed, when it started happening, and dropped the service right away. I didn’t spend any time, trying to figure out ways to combat it.