New Feature: Schedule Meetups more easily

by Jesse

Hey everyone!

The page where Organizers schedule their Meetups is an essential page on the site, on which you choose from dozens of Meetup's event-related features. But it's also perhaps our most complicated page (and slowest to load), and can be overwhelming to new Organizers. So we've streamlined the whole page. We've found through feedback and testing that it's now generally clearer and easier to use. We also optimized our code to make the page load faster.

The features on the page are now grouped into clear sections, each of which you can collapse or expand. With the sections collapsed, it's easier to scan the page and see the different parts quickly. If you prefer all the sections expanded, click on "Expand all" - and you can even save your preference for the page to always be expanded.

We fixed up a few other related things as well, based on your requests:

• Easy button to add photos into the event description.
• Higher character limits for the description and "How will members find you there?"
• Formatting in your description (colors, etc) now carries over when you click through to email your Meetup Group.
• Fixed some missing data issues when you go back and edit a Meetup.

Let us know your feedback, and look for more features relating to scheduling Meetups coming soon!

Thanks,
Jesse

Jesse is a Product Manager at Meetup.

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Comments

[Jennifer]

Calendar-

Pros
You can export all your rsvps at once, can select by the day

Cons
pretty much still sucks, more difficult to see the whole month at a glance with all your meetup options, scrolling option now shows even less than before, more clicking required once you've accepted a meetup to get back to the list where you left off

Is it really that hard?