Changelog

Everything that shipped on Meetabit, newest first.

November 15, 2026

  • New feature: Public changelog page

    See what has changed on Meetabit in one place, with new features, improvements and fixes listed as they ship. A link to it now sits in the site footer.

  • New feature: Import a community's events from its events URL

    Organizers can paste the address of their events page, such as a Luma or Meetup calendar, and Meetabit brings those events into the community.

  • New feature: Add other email addresses to your account

    Add, confirm and remove extra emails from your profile, so you can sign in with whichever address you use while mail goes to your main one.

  • Improvement: Redesigned home page

    The home page has a new look with top communities, sponsors, event times and hosts, a light and dark theme toggle and a new navbar and footer.

  • New feature: Organizers can move outside registration to Meetabit

    An event that sends people to another site now offers its organizer a way to take registration over on Meetabit.

  • Improvement: Sort rows and numbered pages in the directories

    Communities, events and sponsors lists now have a sort row and numbered page links. Communities can be sorted by next event.

  • New feature: Organizer guide

    A new guide walks organizers through running a community and its events.

  • Improvement: Easier phone menu and controls

    The phone menu is a single full-width menu with your account, large tap targets and a labelled theme toggle.

  • New feature: City pages and a list of all cities

    Each city has its own page with its communities and upcoming events, and the cities list ranks cities by what is happening. Start a community from a city page and the city is already filled in.

  • New feature: Pricing page

    See what Meetabit costs and what it offers over other event sites, with a link that fits whether you are signed in or not.

  • New feature: Several links for a sponsor

    A sponsor can list more than one link beside its website.

  • Improvement: Search box ready when a list opens

    List pages put the cursor in the search box on wider screens and leave it alone on phones so the keyboard stays hidden.

  • Improvement: Initials for members without a photo

    A member with no photo now gets a drawn avatar with their initials instead of a generic picture.

  • Improvement: Redesigned event, community, sponsor, talk and account pages

    Record pages, forms, attendee and member lists, sign in and sign up, profiles, feedback, terms and error pages share a new cleaner look.

  • Improvement: Plainer messages and sentence case labels

    Flash messages, errors, dialogs, labels and page titles now read as full sentences or sentence case.

  • New feature: Talks and speaking events on a speaker's profile

    A profile lists talks newest first with when and where each was given, and shows events the person speaks at.

  • New feature: Close a community or sponsor instead of deleting it

    Organizers and representatives can close a profile. Closed pages stay visible but are marked as closed.

  • New feature: Search any city in the world

    Pick a city from a full searchable list when you set your location or fill in a community, sponsor or event.

    • Fix: The Close community and Close sponsor buttons now use sentence case.
    • Fix: People list sort, password confirmation and waiting list labels are aligned.
    • Fix: Email addresses with no dot in the domain are rejected.
    • Fix: A confirm dialog closes when Back returns to its page.

November 14, 2026

  • New feature: Turn talk proposals off for a community

    Organizers can switch off talk proposals when their community does not take them.

  • New feature: Calendar invites, updates and cancellations by email

    Attendees get a calendar invite that updates or cancels with the event, and declining it in a calendar frees the seat.

  • New feature: Connect an AI assistant to Meetabit

    A connect page explains how to link an assistant that can manage your communities and events, including approving join requests.

  • New feature: Loading bar at the top of the page

    A thin bar shows while the next page loads.

  • New feature: Request to join a private community

    Visitors can ask to join a private community, and organizers approve or decline the requests.

  • New feature: Install Meetabit to your home screen

    Phones can add Meetabit as an app, and the browser bar matches the theme.

  • New feature: RSS feed of a community's upcoming events

    Each community serves its upcoming events as an RSS feed.

    • Fix: The event page shows the date above the time.

November 13, 2026

  • New feature: Confirm joining or attending by email

    Guests who join a community or attend an event confirm it from a link sent to their email.

November 12, 2026

  • New feature: Event page names its community with a Join button

    The event page shows its community in a card where you can join it.

  • Improvement: Rewritten privacy policy and terms

    The terms and privacy policy now describe what Meetabit collects and who hosts it.

  • Improvement: Add a community or sponsor from its list page

    The list pages carry the add buttons, and the footer and home page no longer repeat them.

    • Fix: An event now counts as past once it ends.
    • Fix: Contact forms no longer send a message twice.
    • Fix: The sponsor form shows its location error under the field.

November 11, 2026

  • New feature: Upcoming events page

    The home page shows the next six events and the rest are listed on the events page.

October 21, 2026

    • Fix: The event calendar download works from its own link.