About qMEET

📅 46,000+ events

Published so far across more than 4,600 cities in all 50 states and DC, sorted into more than 40 categories — concerts, festivals, fairs, comedy, trivia, markets, races, talks, volunteering, community meetings. Gathered from Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, JamBase, Mobilize, Localist, the National Park Service and our own research, and new ones keep arriving.

👥 8,100+ groups

Public groups across 387 metro areas, each with its own members, chat, uploads and events. Join one in a tap — or use the Suggester to find the group people keep asking for that nobody has started yet.

🧰 14,000+ interests & skills

One library, and skills sit in it beside hobbies — landscaping, cybersecurity, plumbing and accounting next to kayaking and board games. Rate each one, set your level, and see how many members share it. Most sites only ever ask what you like.

🏞️ Over 150,000 parks

National and state parks, county and city parks, wilderness areas, forests, preserves and refuges — 37 kinds in all 50 states, shared with PacklistPRO on one login. Mark what you've visited, rate it, and meet people there.

🥾 Over 180,000 hiking trails

At more than 39,000 parks — 335,000+ miles of trail — filtered by round-trip length, difficulty, shape and what you'll actually see. Log the ones you've walked, and read what other hikers said before you go. Shared with PacklistPRO the same way the parks are.

🗺️ 31,000+ US cities

Every US city and town, so “within 25 miles of me” means something wherever you live — not just in the handful of metros an events site usually bothers with.

💬 And it's all free

Every count above, and every feature attached to it. No premium tier, no ads, no limits on how large your event or group can be, and nothing behind a paywall.

📖 69 pages with a built-in walkthrough

Nearly every screen carries its own tutorial you can open with the ❓ button, plus 44 glossary terms and inline tips on the pages themselves. Written by hand, not generated — a site this large is only useful if you can find your way around it.

💡 The Suggester — what nobody has built yet

Every other site shows you what exists. qMEET also shows you the groups and events the community is asking for and nobody has created, and the ones that exist but have no organizer — with how strongly each is supported, so you can see the demand before you commit to running it. Start the thing people already said they'd come to.

📅 You don't arrive to an empty room

46,000+ events listed so far across more than 4,600 cities in all 50 states — gathered for you from Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, JamBase, Mobilize, Localist, the National Park Service and our own research, and still arriving. Most sites hand a new city an empty calendar and a “create an event” button. And anything you find here saves out with Add to Calendar — a real .ics file that opens straight into Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook, so the thing you said yes to sits next to the rest of your week instead of only in a tab.

🤝 Going anyway? Build a meetup on it

A listing is the concert, the market, the festival — somebody else's thing, often on a date range. A meetup is your plan to go: your time, your meeting spot, “a few of us are going, come with us.” One button on any event page starts one with the venue and details already copied; you pick only when and where to meet. It starts hidden and undated, nobody is notified, and once you switch it live it reaches the people who said they were interested in that listing.

🔎 “What's on near me today?” is one tap

Filter by distance from any city, when and how long, cost, size, category, interest or plain keywords — every word, in any order — sorted by real distance rather than by who paid. Or skip all of it: 📅 Today, Tomorrow, This Weekend, Free, Big Events and My Interests each start fresh from where you're standing, within fifty miles, nearest first. Save a keyword list and search it again next winter, see results on a map, or point the location at a PacklistPRO trip and search every destination on it at once. Your filters follow you between phone and laptop.

👥 Groups you can actually find, and join in one tap

Most groups cover a whole metro area rather than a single town, so searching your own small city still finds them — put in a radius and the group forty minutes away turns up, or drop the location entirely and look nationwide. ＋ Join right from the card without opening the group; if the organizer screens people you'll see Awaiting Approval until they say yes. Each one comes with its own chat room, uploads, surveys and events list, and can be run by several organizers so it doesn't die when one person gets busy. A private group doesn't appear in anyone else's search at all — if you're not in it, it isn't there.

🌟 Nobody's running it? Take it over

A group nobody organizes, or a get-together somebody started here and walked away from, offers you a 🌟 Needs an Organizer card: accept and you're the organizer on the spot — responsibilities spelled out first, co-organizers you can add after. First come. And it is deliberately never offered on a gathered listing, because nobody should be asked to take charge of a festival they have no connection to.

🛠️ Organizer tools, none of them paid

Build an event over several sittings — it stays hidden until you flip Go Live? — and open its page to see how it reads before anyone else can. Float a Proposed date, read a chart of when your members are actually free, see them on a map, make it repeat weekly or monthly, paste a list of emails to add everybody at once, tell attendees what changed when you edit, and export the member list as a spreadsheet. Choose who can see it — your contacts, unless you say otherwise — approve each RSVP and cap the guests, keep notes only organizers see, and cancel it cleanly: members are emailed, and its page stays up marked Canceled. Before you create anything, qMEET checks for something similar so two people don't organize the same night twice.

📨 “Thought you'd like this” isn't an invitation

Sending someone an event has two meanings and qMEET makes you pick. Share is a heads-up: it lands on their Home page and never touches the roster, the attendee count or the reminders. Invite actually asks them to come. Everywhere else, passing a link to a friend quietly signs them up for something.

🧰 Skills live in the same list as interests

Over 14,000 interests and skills in one library — and landscaping, cybersecurity, plumbing and accounting sit right beside kayaking and board games. Tag what you can do, set your level, and members can find you to talk shop or ask for a hand. Most sites only ever ask what you like.

🎯 A bucket list that finds you people

The Interest & Skill Tracker (a tab in the Everything site mode) records what you've tried, want to try soon, want to try someday, do often or have crossed off for good — plus your level, and whether you do it, follow it or compete in it. It sits on the same interests that Member Match and the Suggester already work from, so keeping it honest costs you nothing extra.

💞 Matched on overlap, not on photos

Member Match ranks people by how much you actually have in common and tells you how strong the match is. Member Search stacks up as many interests as you like and lets you demand that all of them match, not just any.

👥 Contacts you can label, and a map of where they are

Favorite someone and they lead your contact list and the box you pick who to message from. Give them a private nickname — their real name still shows beside it — or tag them Hiking, Work, and each label becomes a filter. See where your contacts are on a map, who's online now, who's checked in where, and who has added you — while a Hasn't added you back marker shows who you've added that hasn't returned it. Adding is one-way, and they can see you did it.

🕐 “Who is free right now?”

Set two time windows a day, every day of the week, and qMEET can show you only the people whose own availability says they're free at this moment. You decide separately whether organizers may see those windows at all — availability is data here, not a status you have to keep updating.

🔔 It remembers the thing you said you'd go to

A nudge before an event you're going to, when an unread message is marked time-sensitive, when somebody asks to join your group, and when a check-in is about to expire — each one its own switch, so you can keep the one that matters and drop the rest. Quiet Hours and a 12-hour Do Not Disturb hold back the buzzing overnight or for the day, and we say plainly which they cover: they stop push, and email still arrives. Push has to be turned on per browser, so nothing pops up on a device you never approved.

🔒 Privacy is sixteen switches, not one

First name, last initial, last name, age, gender, which events and groups you're in, your availability, your check-ins, when you were last active, your interests, your photo, who can view your public profile — each with its own audience. Plus three more with audiences of their own: who can find you in search, who can find you on Member Match, and who is allowed to start a conversation with you.

👁 See your profile exactly as a stranger sees it

An audience switcher on your own profile re-renders it as a signed-out visitor, as any member, or as one of your contacts, so “what do these privacy settings actually do?” has a visible answer. qMEET is 18+, two-factor sign-in is one tick away in Preferences, Sign Out Everywhere ends every session at once, you can deactivate the account yourself, and one login also opens PacklistPRO and qFIT.

📍 Checking in is a photo, not just a pin

Set a status and check in from a bar on every page, with a live Here badge counting down how long you said you'd stay. Attach up to four photos to where you are right now — and long-press a contact in the bar at the top to see where your mutual contacts are checked in, and until when. Every check-in with a location lands on your own Check-in History map (the last 30 days unless you widen the dates), joined in order, oldest to newest. From half an hour before an event starts, its page grows a Check-in button for the people going: tap it and your pin lands on the event's live map, so nobody is circling the parking lot texting “where are you?”

📱 qLIVE — share where you are, live

Our companion Android app records your walk, ride or drive and uploads it here — and it can share where you are right now with an event, a group, or one of your contacts, each on a timer that ends by itself. Whether a group or a contact sees your route or only your dot is your choice (an event only ever gets your dot), and it only ever covers the trip you're on. A group or a contact you share with doesn't need the app — they watch on the site (at an event, only people who are there and sharing from qLIVE themselves see your dot), and while you're recording a link lets somebody with no account follow along, until you finish, the link runs out (a day at most), or you switch it off. And at an event, once you've checked in, one map shows the others who checked in there, unless they hide which events they're in.

🗺️ qLIVE keeps working where your signal doesn't

Download maps before you go — topo, satellite or streets — for the area on screen, a city, or a whole state, which keeps downloading in the background. Every GPS fix is saved on the phone first and sent when you're back in range, so a dead zone never costs you a point. Pick a nearby trail and its route is drawn under your walk; pick one of your saved places and qLIVE draws the route there and names the next turn. A compass shows which way you're facing, and a multi-day mode logs a point every five minutes for trips that run a couple of weeks.

📈 qLIVE shows you what the trip actually was

A live graph under the map while you record, and Stats for any track — moving time against total time, splits, climb and descent. Color the line by speed, elevation, GPS accuracy or cell signal, tap the line to find that moment on the graph, and a long stop counts as a break rather than as travel. Drag the start back to where you really set off, trim the ends, and combine visits to the same place — qLIVE offers when you save. It asks “still recording?” if you suddenly hit driving speed, and reminders from our sites arrive as alerts that repeat until you tap Got it.

🛡 Backing out is quiet, and it's four different things

Hide, mute, block or remove — four separate exits, each with its consequences spelled out before you pick, and one page listing everyone you've blocked. Flag anything for us to look at. Nobody is ever told you did any of it. A word filter masks offensive language everywhere you read, not just in chat, and it's on unless you turn it off.

🗳️ The group votes on what it actually does

A group, or an event run as a 🤝 Meetup, can carry proposed activities members vote on, with the results in the open. Alongside it, an anonymous chart of when members are generally free, and anonymous summaries of their interests and cities — so an organizer picks a day on evidence rather than a guess.

📊 Surveys and polls with pictures for answers

Build a survey or poll for an event or group you run, with an image as each answer — pick one or pick many. Results come back as totals, grouped answers and named responses, ready to export as a spreadsheet or print.

💬 Chat with an inbox and an undo

Message anyone straight away — there's no friend request to accept first, only their own setting for who may start a conversation. A proper inbox, not one endless thread — with typing indicators, read receipts you can switch off, emoji reactions, and Unsend for the message you regret. Rooms for an event, a group or an interest, a low-data text-only mode for a bad connection, and text replacements qMEET swaps in as you send. Direct messages clear themselves after 30 days — or sooner, if you and the other person both pick 1, 3 or 7 — but anything pinned, saved, unread or still an open action item is always kept, and a file sent in a conversation opens only for the people in it.

‼ Say how much a message matters

Press and hold ▶ Send and choose how it lands. In a one-to-one chat, Time-Sensitive goes to the top of their list and keeps reminding them until they read it, for up to a day; Priority goes to the top without the nagging; Normal and Low Priority are what they sound like. Then tick what else it should do — push it to them, or pin it, save it or make it an Action Item, for them, for you, or both. Nothing sends until you tap Send. And in a one-to-one chat, 📢 Bloop is the one-tap “look now” nudge.

🏞️ Over 150,000 parks, and one login for three sites

National, state and local parks, wilderness areas, forests, preserves and refuges — 37 kinds in all 50 states — rate them, log a visit, keep your own notes, leave a tip the next visitor can read, or add a park nobody has listed yet. The parks you mark carry over to PacklistPRO and back, because your qMEET login is the same login there and on qFIT. One sign-up, nothing to join twice.

🥾 Over 180,000 hiking trails

At more than 39,000 parks — 335,000 miles of trail — asked the way a hiker actually asks: a waterfall hike under five miles in Utah, which no park-by-park list can answer. Every trail carries its round-trip length, shape, difficulty, elevation gain and whether a permit is really needed — then log your own walk with your rating and the conditions. Same login, same trails, on PacklistPRO.

🗺️ Maps for “where do we actually go?”

Places Near Me finds coffee, food, parking, a restroom or a campground — including free dispersed sites Google has never listed — around you or the whole way to somewhere — and tells you what a search costs in quota before you run it. My Places keeps your own pins, which turn up in your check-in picker so you never type a place twice, and are the same pins on PacklistPRO. Share one with a contact and it lands on their Home page, one tap from their own list; mark a bad road and routing picks the way with the least of it. And Cities Near Me lists the towns within 5 to 200 miles, with its events, groups and members one tap away — for the weeks your own town is quiet.

⛅ “Is this still happening?”

Your Dashboard carries a forecast card with radar, severe-weather alerts and air quality, and an event carries the forecast for its date and place. It's the question you were about to go and ask somewhere else, and it costs nothing — the forecast service is free and keyless.

❓ A tutorial on most pages, written by a person

69 pages carry their own walkthrough behind the ❓ button, replayable whenever you want it, plus a 44-term glossary for the words qMEET uses in its own particular way, inline tips on the pages themselves, and a site walkthrough for the first ten minutes. All of it hand-written rather than generated — a social site that needs explaining is a social site nobody stays on.

📖 Word of the Day

Switch your site mode to Everything and you get a fresh word every day with its pronunciation, meaning, examples and synonyms — look up any word of your own, or hit Surprise Me. Switch on chat's 📖 Word button in its options and it pulls a random word and drops it into your message. It has nothing to do with meeting people, and it stays because members like it.

A listing is the thing itself

The concert, festival, market, park or club night — gathered from public sources so you don't have to hunt for it. Nobody is running a listing, and plenty of them cover a date range rather than a start time.

A meetup is your plan to go

Your own smaller get-together built on top of a listing: your date, your time, your meeting spot. “A few of us are going — come with us.” You don't take anything over and you don't need permission.

One button, details copied

Every event page has a Meetups for this Event card listing the plans other people have already built on it, and one button to start yours. The venue, address and details come across — you only pick when and where to meet.

Nothing goes public by accident

A new meetup starts hidden, visible only to your contacts, with no date set. Nobody is notified. Once you set a date and switch it live, it surfaces for the people who marked themselves interested in that listing.

Search that actually narrows

Filter by distance from any city, when it is and how long it runs, cost and size, category and interest, or plain keywords — and results are sorted by real distance, not by who paid. Or skip all of it: one tap on 📅 Today finds what's on today within fifty miles of where you're standing, and the quick views beside it do the same for tomorrow, the weekend, free things, the big ones. Your filters are remembered across your devices, and keyword lists let you save a set of words — ski, snowboard, skating — and search on it again next winter.

Search a trip's destinations

Also use PacklistPRO? Point the location filter at one of your trips and qMEET searches every destination saved on it at once — so you can line up things to do before you land.

Groups, not just one-offs

Ongoing communities — hikers, board gamers, language learners. Public or private, with saved places and tags so putting on the next event takes seconds.

Several groups, several organizers

One event can belong to more than one group and be run by more than one person — not just one of each. Before you create anything, qMEET checks for similar events so two people don't organize the same night twice.

📅 Put it in your calendar

Add to Calendar on any event page downloads an .ics file that opens straight into Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook — so the thing you said yes to sits next to everything else in your week.

🖨 Or take it on paper

Events and groups have clean printable pages (or save one as a PDF), and the invite page carries a QR code someone can scan while they're standing in front of you.

Build it before anyone sees it

New events start hidden. One switch — Go Live? — decides whether members can find it, so you can put an event together over several sittings and publish when you're ready.

Float a date before you commit

Not sure yet? Mark the date as still being decided and members see a Proposed badge. It's a signal about the date only — visibility is still whatever Go Live? says.

Know when people are free

Members mark the days and times they're usually available on their profile. You get charts of when most of your members can actually make it — the difference between guessing a date and knowing one.

Let people vote

Tag a group or a 🤝 Meetup with activities and members vote on which ones they want — YEAH!, Sure!, Maybe, Naw, Another Time — so you plan what people genuinely turned up for. An untagged one shows no voting card at all, which is one more reason to tag it. (A plain 📋 Event listing has no ballot — a public listing already knows what it is.)

📊 Ask them anything else

Build a survey for an event or group you run, publish it when it's ready, and read the results as totals or answer by answer. Answers aren't anonymous to whoever runs it — and respondents are told up front who'll be able to read theirs.

See where everyone is

A member map shows where your people are concentrated, and their interests and cities are on the same page — so you can pick a meeting spot that works.

RSVPs with the detail you need

Who's coming, how likely, guest counts, notes to you alone, and reasons from the people who can't. Approve members if you want to; leave it open if you don't.

Everything in one thread

Every event and group has its own chat room for plans, who's bringing what, and last-minute changes — plus file attachments for a flyer, map, menu or waiver, and a photo gallery afterwards.

Get the word out

Every event and group has a Share panel: copy the link, push it through your phone's share sheet, email it, or send it to your contacts. On an event you choose your intent — Share is a heads-up, Invite asks them to come. Groups are invite-only.

Nobody has organized it yet?

The Group & Event Suggester surfaces what people around you are into but nobody has put on — interests with plenty of local members and no event to go to. Create opens the form with the name and the city already filled in.

Or take over one that's waiting

Some groups were seeded from a popular interest and nobody runs them yet, and a get-together somebody started here can lose its organizer. Open one and a 🌟 Needs an Organizer card offers it to you — accept and you're a member and its organizer straight away, with the editing, member approvals and planning charts that come with it. First come. A gathered listing never offers it: nobody should be asked to run a festival they have no connection to.

14,000+ interests & skills

Rate anything 😍 Love, 🙂 Like or 😐 Meh — or 🚫 Hide it to keep it out of your recommendations entirely. Those ratings drive everything qMEET suggests you. Tag a skill you actually have — a trade, a profession, a craft — and set your level on it, so members can find you to talk shop or ask for a hand.

Member Match

qMEET does the choosing: members ranked by how much of your interest list they share, and exactly how well you line up with any one of them. It's not a dating site — just a good way to find people you'll click with.

Member Search

The other way round: you supply the criteria — age, gender, location, shared interests — and qMEET returns who matches. Use it when you already know what you're looking for.

Popular Interests & Skills

See what most members are into, ranked. Anything on your own interest list opens a live chat room with everybody who shares it — no event, no group, no introduction needed. Tap something you haven't tagged and qMEET offers to add it first.

Interest & Skill Tracker

In the Everything site mode, keep a record of what you've tried, what you want to try, and what you do regularly — with your skill level in each. A quiet way to notice you've been meaning to get back into something.

Contacts

Your own list of qMEET people, so you can find and message them again without searching. Favorite someone and they lead your contact list and the box you pick who to message from; give them a private nickname (their real name still shows beside it) or tag them with your own labels — Hiking, Work — and each label becomes a filter. Adding is one-way, and they can see you did it. You can also hide your whereabouts from one person, or stop being chased about their time-sensitive messages, without blocking them.

Three views of one thread — and rooms

Your 1:1 inbox, a real-time Live view with typing indicators and read receipts, and a low-data view stripped to text for a bad signal — all the same messages, switched between at the top of chat. Separately, chat rooms hold the group conversation for an event, group or interest.

Messages you can manage

Pin a message to the top of a thread, reply to one, save it for later, or edit and unsend your own. Mark one 🎯 Action Item when somebody still owes something on it — the one mark reading doesn't clear. Re-send the push for a message they may have missed. Send files straight into a conversation.

☺ React without typing

Thirteen one-tap reactions under anything somebody sends you — 👍 👎 ❤️ 😂 ✅ ❓ ⏰ 🚗 and the rest, with the full emoji set a tap further — and theirs come back as a chip under your own message. Leave as many as you like, take them back by tapping again, and nobody gets pinged either way.

Say how much it matters

Messages go out silently by default. Press and hold ▶ Send and a panel opens: set that one message to ‼ Time-Sensitive, ❗ Priority, ▶ Normal or ⬇ Low Priority, tick 🔔 Notify to push it through, and add any of 📌 Pin, 💾 Save or 🎯 Action Item — each of those three for them, for you, or both. Priority floats it to the top of their list in red; Time-Sensitive floats it above that in magenta and keeps reminding them until they read it. Nothing sends until you tap ▶ Send, and none of it sticks: the next message goes out normal again.

Your own shorthand

Text replacements expand as you send — type omw, send “on my way”, in every chat on the site. Start a couple of lines with a dash and they come out as a list. In the Everything site mode, Chat Statistics shows word and character counts for your most recent conversation. Turn on Word in chat OPTIONS → Chat Tools and you also get a 📖 Word button beside Options that shows a random word — a new one every time you open it, with its pronunciation, meaning, examples and synonyms — and drops it into your message; set it to open once a day or every hour if you'd rather not go looking for it. The fuller Word of the Day page, where you can look up any word you like, still needs Preferences set to Everything.

Read it the way that suits you

Chat is an inbox, not a scrolling thread: a message stays unread until you deal with it. One pill flips between two saved views — Unread and All to start — and, when you want it, every conversation merges into one list, either grouped by person or as a straight run of messages. Colors mark what's time-sensitive, priority, pinned and saved at a glance, and 📍 Send GPS drops your location into the box as a map link when “where are you?” is the whole question.

Comfortable by default

A filter masks offensive language — on by default, everywhere you read, not just in chat. You can block someone so they can't reach you at all, or flag content for us to review — and neither action tells the other person.

It tidies itself up

Direct messages don't pile up forever: read ones older than your window are deleted for you, and the window is yours to set — 1, 3, 7 or 30 days, 30 to begin with. Anything you 📌 pin, ⭐ save, tag, or flag 🎯 Action Item is kept regardless, and so is anything still unread — and a message only goes when it's past the window for both of you. Event, group and interest rooms aren't touched at all.

Check-in — “I'm here now”

Flag that you're at a place, for a window of time, and nearby members can come join you. Add a status, a comment and up to four photos. No event, no planning, no calendar. It clears itself at the time you set — or in about four hours if you don't — you decide who can see it, and your check-in history keeps the record even though the live check-in and its photos don't linger.

Finding each other on the day

From half an hour before an event starts, its page grows a 📍 Check-in button for the people going. Tapping it marks you arrived and puts your pin on the event's live map, so nobody is circling the parking lot texting “where are you?”. It offers to share your exact spot, your status and your site-wide check-in — untick whichever you'd rather not, and drop the pin again whenever you like.

Who else is out right now

Long-press the place pin in the alert bar and you get your mutual contacts' check-ins — who is somewhere, where, and until when. Enough to decide whether to go and join them.

Your Dashboard

What's happening right now near you: where everyone is, contacts who've been active, unread messages, your events, groups and interests, popular places, and the local forecast — on one page.

Your Home page

The other half: invitations waiting on you, things to do, meetups from events you're interested in, surveys shared with you, and suggested events and groups based on what you're into.

The Alert Bar

A strip that surfaces anything timely — a new invitation, an imminent event, an unread message — wherever you happen to be on the site.

📍 My Places

Your own pins — where you parked, the hotel, a restaurant worth remembering, a favorite view. Search for a business or an address, drop a pin, and route to any of them from where you are. The same pins show up in your check-in picker, so you never type a place twice.

One set of pins, two sites

If you also use PacklistPRO, it's literally the same list — save a place on either site and it's there on the other.

Places a contact sent you

Somebody can share a place with you, and it waits on your Home page until you decide. Nothing is saved unless you say so — save it and it becomes your pin, yours to rename, move or remove.

🏞️ Parks

National parks, state parks, metroparks, recreation areas — thousands of them, filtered by type, state, size and what you can actually do there, with every match on one map. Sign in and it doubles as a record: mark the ones you've been to, rate them, and keep a list of where you're going next. Free to browse — the catalog is ours and the map is not a paid service.

Your parks travel too

Same story as the pins: the parks catalog and your visits are shared with PacklistPRO, so a park you tick off on either site is ticked off on both. Missing one? Add it — it goes into the catalog for everyone.

🥾 Trails

180,000+ hiking trails at the parks in the catalog — ask for a waterfall hike under five miles in Utah, which a park-by-park list can never answer. Every trail has its round-trip length, difficulty and what you'll see. Sign in and your own hikes — rating, conditions, notes, and a tip other hikers will see — save with them, on both this site and PacklistPRO.

🗺️ Places Near Me

Gas, food, lodging, campsites, coffee, restrooms and more — around you now, or the whole way to somewhere you're driving. Searching costs real money, so the page tells you what a search will cost you in quota before you run one, and repeating a search you've already run is free.

🏙 Cities Near Me

U.S. cities within 5 to 200 miles of any city, up to the 1,000 nearest — as a list and on a map — then jump straight to that city's events, groups and members. Useful when your own town is quiet but the next one over isn't.

⛅ Weather where you are

The Dashboard carries a forecast card with radar, severe-weather alerts and air quality — because “is this outdoor thing still happening?” is the question you were about to go and ask somewhere else.

Maps everywhere they help

Event and group searches have a map view, an event page shows its venue, and a group's member map shows where its people actually are — so you can pick somewhere that works for everyone.

You decide who sees what

Name, gender, age, last-active time, availability, event membership — each one separately, and not just on or off: Anyone, Any Member or Only My Contacts. It's all in one card in Preferences, and most of it starts open, so it's worth a look. Then check your own profile through the audience switcher — it re-renders as a signed-out visitor, as any member, or as one of your contacts, so you see exactly what each of them sees.

As much site as you want

Three levels: Simple trims the menus and tucks away the fiddlier controls, Standard — where new accounts start — is the normal experience, and Everything puts it all back, including the extra chat tools. It's about how much is on screen, not what you're allowed to do: nothing you've made is hidden from you, and you can change it whenever you like in Preferences. The low-data chat view is never taken away, whichever mode you're in.

Notifications on your terms

Reminders arrive by email out of the box — messages that need chasing, event updates, a nudge before something starts — and each type is its own switch you can turn off. Push starts once you subscribe a device. Quiet hours and a Do Not Disturb snooze then keep push quiet at 2am, and you can silence one person's alerts without blocking them.

Looks the way you like

Dark mode, dark maps, font size, page background and which page qMEET opens on. Set it once and it follows you to every device you sign in on.

Install it like an app

Add qMEET to your home screen and it launches in its own window and keeps working offline for pages you've already opened — with no background battery drain, because it's only running when you open it.

Sign in the way you like

Use Sign in with Google or a username and password — change either whenever you want. A sign-in from a device none of our sites has seen before asks for a six-digit code emailed to you; it's on by default, you can turn it off, and you can forget your other trusted devices in one click.

Help where you need it

A ❓ tutorial on most pages, Tutorials, Tips, the Glossary, Troubleshooting, and a searchable Site Map of every page you can open. On a computer, press ? for the keyboard shortcuts.