Reasons to move away from meetup Toronto rollerblade inline skater group

Reasons to move away meetup

If a quick research about meetup, their website, app problems, interfaces and at times rude technical support is not reason enough, in comparison with Kommunity, the later offers several advantages starting by not being paid.

The bladers group on meetup

• Unfortunately management of the group is very restrictive to one person only who only logs in once or twice a year (if that much)
• Some group management features are not available to all organizers which limits what the group can do.
• The group has not been updated in almost a decade
• Meetup accounts getting disabled for chatting to much among friends in private
• Meetup accounts getting disabled because the member logged in from another country or from what is thought not to be a usual ip address connection
• Meetup accounts getting disabled because of meetup spam filters that ignore legit communication between members
• Meetup accounts getting punished because someone complained about someone else that was not woke and therefore was against minorities
• Too many inactive organizers that have not skated for months or years or have given up inline skating.
• Too many catfish members that only RSVP to mess with the event
• RSVP collectors: People RSVP to an event to gain social status but hardly ever show up. Some people have collected up to 1300 RSVP's while not even attending 10% of it.
• Too many bots pretending to be members
• Too many members that never login or even subscribe to the group notices
• Too many female accounts that are actually bots just to try to attract men o the group
• Too many women that RSVP and last minute do not show up to the event and don't even care to change the RSVP to let us know
• Too many women looking for hookups or for that cute guy that they might meet, instead of actually skating
• Too many members that are not even in Canada but actually live in other countries and never join any event
• Too many members that block messages from organizers
• Too many members that RSVP to events for which they do not qualify in terms of skill and or equipment. (ie: beginners who RSVP to advanced events. 76 mm wheels for events where the wheel size is between 100 mm and 125mm)
• In 2021 around 400 accounts have not logged in to the group in over 2 years
• in 2021, 90% of the skaters are assumed beginners in terms of skill according to their profiles
• By mid 2021 (June), from the 150 new accounts created this year, 140 were beginners that started skating in the same year and many wanted to be in advanced skating events.
• Main organizer has never addressed any group issues or assigned someone to them
• Main organizer has given up skating and moved to a different sport and has not done maintenance to the group
• Rude meetup tech support
• Mobile app full of trackers and privacy invasive features
• Permanent online chat history
• Involvement in politics
• Discriminatory methods done by some meetup administrators
• Paid service
• Support team made of 7 people only
• Poor social media integration
• FEES, Problems & MISTAKES
• others...