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Raised as a usability problem by 36 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 27 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Cannot easily unsubscribe from group emails with one clickUnreviewed
20112026- Signing up silently subscribes users to many emails they never chose2014-04-22
- Meetup emails are next to impossible to unsubscribe from2012-10-02
- Can't easily unsubscribe from group emails; no one-click opt-out available2011-08-01
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 38 complaints
- Event pages are cluttered with duplicate data and RSVPs are hidden2026-01-21
- Upgrade popups cannot be dismissed, forcing users to deal with them2025-12-30
- Constantly shown popups pushing premium accounts, plus buggy site2025-10-29
- Site and app are slow and fail in random ways2025-05-21
- Full meetups show a waitlist prompt, forcing real people through extra sign-up hoops2024-06-23
- Tapping chat notification lands on event screen; chat is hard to find and comments missing2024-06-20
- Website and app are slow, sometimes fail to load, and getting worse2024-06-19
- Commenter says Meetup's search experience is terrible, quoting another commenter2024-06-19
- Attendee names cannot be selected or copied, forcing manual retyping of the list2024-02-20
- Special offers must be clicked through before doing what you came to do2024-01-11
- Hard to find search or pick a city other than a few fixed options2024-01-11
- Can't tell if links are broken or the connection is just slow2023-11-08
- Hard to find groups the person relates to on the site2023-10-03
- Filtered search hides events that appear when logged out or visited directly2023-10-03
- Subscriptions billed every six months are easy to forget and hard to cancel2023-04-26
- Infinite scrolling pushes footer away so links become impossible to click2022-07-21
- No bulk way to change notification settings across 100+ subscribed groups2022-06-22
- The group message/email composer is poorly built and frustrating for organizers to use2022-03-04
- The timezone setting is hidden and general users find features too complex2022-03-04
- New design siloes users, making it hard to find events beyond their groups2022-03-04
- Map pans much farther than the user intended when panning and zooming2022-01-04
- Can't turn off promotional blog notifications while keeping meetup alerts on2021-06-10
- Cancel option only appears after changing address to California, hidden otherwise2020-04-01
- Organizers cannot format the emails sent to their subscribers2020-03-31
- Easy to sign up but hard to cancel the subscription2020-03-31
- Hard to cancel; the service is designed to make leaving difficult2020-03-31
- Confusing for non-native speakers to tell which button to click2019-10-16
- Can't search by time of day or narrow area; must wade through irrelevant listings2019-09-18
- Forced into a broken new version where meetup editing cannot save2018-02-18
- Publishing a meetup is not intuitive and the organizer ends up alone on it2018-02-18
- Hard to use for a first-time visitor, so the user gave up in frustration2016-11-29
- Signing up silently subscribes users to many emails they never chose2014-04-22
- Commenter cannot see the intended de-emphasis of the Start option; both look the same size2014-01-31
- Meetup emails are next to impossible to unsubscribe from2012-10-02
- Can't easily unsubscribe from group emails; no one-click opt-out available2011-08-01
- Must edit email settings separately for each of 20+ groups to unsubscribe2011-08-01
- Nag screen to tweet about meetups keeps returning, with no setting to dismiss it2011-05-11
- Forced to log in just to unsubscribe from emails2011-03-22