Meetup: Lokale Gruppen/Events

It gets worse and worse. Latest fun: if you receive an iOS notification from Meetup, and tap on it, you land in the event, but you can't escape i.e. can’t get to the other app screens. Sole solution: forcedly end the app and then restart it. Tragic lack of QA.

Vernetzen, bzw. Gleichgesinnte finden war noch nie so einfach und intuitiv.

Installieren geht schneller aber Löschen da muss man sich durchwühlen. Warum kann man es nicht in der App vom Handy löschen?? Sonder sich extra im Browser Anmelden muss die Daten nochmal eingeben?? Unmöglich sowas! Total Unpraktisch.

Im Vergleich zu anderen Apps ziemlich schwer zu bedienen, wenig intuitiv. Es ist extrem kompliziert, das Profil aus der App zu löschen, selbst wenn man die Anweisungen auf der Support-Seite befolgt. Ich bleibe bei der Frustrationssitzung und mache mir Sorgen um die Verwendung meiner Daten, da ich mein Profil nicht löschen konnte.

It’s incredibly difficult to like this app. Everything is wrapped in dark patterns, and when you touch on a feature, they immediately insert an ad for their premium features. It’s infuriating because even with “premium” this app is probably the worst of its kind. The only saving grace is the work the design team put into this. It looks polished. But it works like a hot over-commercialised mess! I think there is a general misunderstanding of what makes a free tier app “good enough”. Is it enough to have a search feature but not honour the search preference next time the user attempts another query? Is it enough to have no identity check for certain users and delegate that responsibility to the organisers that have to deal with this because Meetup has no mechanism in place to preventively detect and flag bad users? I could go on. To make matters worse, my new iPhone running iOS 17 is struggling with its battery life when I am using the Meetup app. It’s melting down like a snowflake in the sun. Only in this app. I don’t know what is going on and why this app needs so much processing power just to show a list of events and groups, but in 2025, this is the state we are in. Is this app even made for iOS? When I use it, the strain it puts on the battery is comparable to playing a high-end rendering 3D shooter. At least, I’m hopeful that the latest update will improve the battery life. The rest I expect - as always - to stay the same: just bad. It feels like management keeps coming up with ideas of how to introduce friction into the user experience for the sake of making a point: - 6€ to use the app for seven days without being terrorised with paywalls here and there and everywhere. - 300€ per year to organise groups so people can connect. Makes me want to learn to code and build my own better app. So thanks for the inspiration, I guess!

Die App an sich ist gut, aber die Marketingmails, die 5x täglich bei mir ankommen sind eine Katastrophe - obwohl ich mich von allen Mails abgemeldet habe. Der Kundenservice reagiert auf Anliegen nicht.