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WOW! Comments pointing out that this is illegal in the UK and Europe under the GDPR removed! What gives?
Dunno why the comments aren’t there anymore but nothing here is even remotely against GDPR, as no user information is actually given to the new meeting host.
> meetup.com actually "offered" our meetups Do you have a link or a screenshot you can show us? Might help contextualize.
Meetup.com will first offer a group whose organizer had stepped down to the members of the group. They will not shut down a group easily. I disagree that they shared emails since I do not think organizers have access you that data.
Considering the other mentions of a legit use case for continuing the group, and the problem of a random "new owner" swooping in and sniping the group/list for their purposes, I wonder if the solution is to intentionally corrupt the list [0]? At least that would prevent the sniping. In your case, do you have any continued access or has control already been sniped? [0] Delete all but a few members, replace all members…
Co-organizers can do almost anything BUT delete users or close the group.
Did our Org let us down on that ? sure. Was it cleat that anyone could take-over the group ? clearly not. What can we do ? Well, none of the comments helped on that... Meetup.com support neither...
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Dunno why the comments aren’t there anymore but nothing here is even remotely against GDPR, as no user information is actually given to the new meeting host.
The new owner (organizer) can export the user list, including full name and email...
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What is the platform where these events have moved? Please tell me it's not just Facebook.
What’s wrong with Facebook? It probably works better for lots of groups - at least you don’t have to pay Facebook £80, and they won’t sell your group to someone else if you don’t pay.
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What is the platform where these events have moved? Please tell me it's not just Facebook.
What’s wrong with Facebook? It probably works better for lots of groups - at least you don’t have to pay Facebook £80, and they won’t sell your group to someone else if you don’t pay.
I often am not notified about new events, because they are not "boosted" with a payment.
When there are updates on the event page, I do not see them.
When someone sends me a message, I'm not always notified about it in the interface, even if it is not sent to the "Other Messages" alternative inbox.
Once the event is done, it's difficult to find its page again to look for photos from the event or have a follow-up discussion. And even if I find it myself, other people aren't notified about my posts.
Then there is the general site-wide auto-moderation system that often flags my comments as spam and hides them from everyone. I am not a spammer, nor do I post anything political, critical of anyone, or in any way offensive, in my opinion.
Also, the interface for discussion feels like wearing a Harrison Bergeron ringing bell thought disruptor hat, with no threading, tiny textboxes for replies, having to expand each reply, only seeing a handful of comments at a time before having to click "more", not being able to keep track of what I've read and not read, etc.
All of this is very sad, because I remember when Facebook was just AMAZING for events and social things, with a great combination of events, event photos, groups, photo tags, and an easy commenting system.
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The new owner (organizer) can export the user list, including full name and email...
They cannot, no.
Name User ID Title Member ID Location Joined Group on Last visited group on Last Attended Total RSVPs RSVPed Yes RSVPed Maybe RSVPed No Meetups attended No shows Intro Photo Assistant Organizer Mailing List URL of Member Profile
I guess that totally falls under GDPR, just that sadly we're not in Europe.
It too 18 days for the support to answer and give the link https://help.meetup.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002865332-Closi...:
``` If you’d still like to close your group, please submit a request to our Community Support team. ```
Which also explain what Jessica wrote in her response:
``` We're a small team and, unfortunately, we've been experiencing high volumes of requests lately, which caused this delay. ```
Come on, involving support to close groups ? I guess it's even worse than forcing organizers TO PAY to get heir group deleted...