[Forgeties79]

I don’t know about you, but I feel a little weird about the fact that some random person can just buy all the contacts/access to the profiles of our old podcast producer meetup group without my input or opting in.

Imagine if folks could buy abandoned Facebook profiles and be instantly connected to all their friends and groups/pages. I think most people would be against that.

At the very least I would hope to see a prompt or notification of some kind appear that says “hey, this community is under new management” and then I have to opt to stay in.

[CubsFan1060]

Having not been a meetup admin, what access do you have for user's information? Is it just their meetup profiles, or do you actively have their email addresses?

Also, you said two things interesting: "profiles of our old podcast producer meetup group", and then "without my input or opting in".

You used both "our" and "my". Do you see it as your group, or a group of people who have come together and could keep it going without you?

[Symbiote]

I'm an admin/owner for a Meetup group.

I think the only thing I can see that other members can't is:

  1 Number of RSVPs
  2 List of meetups attended
  3 No-shows
  4 Last visit to the Meetup page
  5 Whether they are blocked from the group

Except for 3 and 5, the information is all available on pages visible to members anyway, though you'd need to page through all the past events to aggregate it.

I do see a box "Get to know your members — With the Pro registration form, you can get key attendee details like email address and job title". I wonder where job title comes from, I certainly haven't provided that to Meetup. I'd also like there to be a way to hide my email address from Pro group owners, but I can't see one. Possibly I don't see the setting as I'm not a member of any Pro groups.

[CubsFan1060]

Ah, now that's interesting. I looks like they have a product that seems to be more focused on businesses organizing things: https://www.meetup.com/lp/meetup-pro

I wonder what all the differences there are. That would be more concerning if that allowed transfer.

[tacon]

There is one piece of not so obvious data that is public in Meetup profiles: zip code. The city is listed, but hovering over the link that has the city as link text shows the zip code that member registered with, possibly long ago. This can be handy for deciding meeting locations, etc.

[Forgeties79]

I actually didn’t create the original meetup group, my colleague did. I agreed to join his group that he runs. If someone else takes the reins that we don’t know I would like the option to drop out before they access anything.