Glossary

Interested?

A signal, not a commitment — Yeah!, Maybe, or no. It tells the organizer there's appetite and keeps the event in your own lists, but it does not put you on the guest list. Saves the instant you pick it.

Are you going? (your RSVP)

The actual commitment. Saying you're going also joins you to the event as a member. If the organizer requires approval you stay pending until they approve you. Also saves the instant you pick it.

Half the RSVP card saves itself

The two answers above save on pick. The guest count and the note fields do not — those need ✓ Save RSVP. It's one card with two save models, which is worth knowing before you close the tab.

Proposed event

A badge meaning the date isn't locked in yet — the organizer set "Is this date locked in?" to Still being decided to float an idea and gauge interest. It says nothing about who can see the event.

Confirmed

The opposite of Proposed, and the default: the date is settled. No badge is shown.

Pending

You've said you're going to an event whose organizer approves guests, and they haven't approved you yet.

Vote on Activities

Members vote for the activities tagged to an event or a group, so the organizer can plan what people actually want to do. Separate from your RSVP.

Go Live?

The one switch that decides whether members can find your event. New events start hidden, so you can build one over several sittings; flip this to Yes under 🚀 Publish when you're ready. Nothing else on the page changes visibility.

Is this date locked in?

A commitment signal, not a second visibility switch. Confirmed or Still being decided — the latter shows members a Proposed event badge. Either way the event is exactly as visible as Go Live? says it is.

Organizer

Whoever runs an event or group: edits it, approves members, and messages everyone. An event with no organizer can be claimed — look for the "become the organizer" card on its page.

Tags

The interests an event or group is about. They're how it reaches the right members — and a public event needs at least one before it can go live.

Event vs. Group

Event is the umbrella word — it's what Find Events searches, and it covers both listings and get-togethers. A group is an ongoing community that can hold many events over time.

Listing

The concert, festival, park or activity itself — run by somebody outside qMEET. Most are imported; a member can also share one they found. It carries a stone 📋 Listing badge naming where it came from, and its dates may be a range rather than one sitting. Signing up happens on that other site — saying you're interested or going here just tells other members, so they can find each other. Turn one into a real plan with 🤝 Start a Get-Together.

Get-Together

A plan to actually meet, hosted on qMEET with a real organizer — one date, a start and end time, and a meeting spot. It carries a violet 🤝 Get-Together badge, and RSVPs here are real: they reach the organizer and build a roster. Most are built on a listing (“a few of us are going, come with us”), which takes nothing over and changes that listing not at all — but you don't need a listing: host your own potluck or game night from scratch. It can also repeat — a weekly run club or a monthly book group is one get-together whose date is simply when the next one is. A listing showing 🤝 2 get-togethers has two such plans built on it.

Visibility (public / private)

Whether an event is listed for everyone or only reachable by the people you invite. Distinct from Go Live?, which is the on/off switch; this is the audience.

Member Search

You supply the criteria — age, gender, location, shared interests — and qMEET returns who matches. Use it when you know what you're looking for. Open it.

Member Match

qMEET does the choosing: members who share your interests, ranked by how much overlap there is. Use it when you don't. It only works once you've tagged some interests. Open it.

Interests

What you're into. Rate anything 😍 Love, 🙂 Like, 😐 Meh or 🚫 Hide on My Interests & Skills. They drive Member Match, the event and group suggestions on your Dashboard, and which notifications you get — and 🚫 Hide keeps something out of your recommendations entirely. Skills live in the same list — see below.

Skills

Not a separate list — a skill is just an interest you can actually do. Landscaping, cybersecurity, plumbing, accounting and the rest are ordinary entries in the same library, and you can add one that's missing. Tagging them lets members find you to talk shop or ask for a hand. Nothing is verified, and marking a skill doesn't say you're offering paid work.

Skill level

How good you are at one of your interests — ★ Beginner, ★★ Intermediate, ★★★ Experienced or ★★★★ Expert. Tap the ☆ on any 😍 Love or 🙂 Like chip on My Interests & Skills, or set it on Interest & Skill Tracker. It groups your interests on your public profile, and Member Search can filter on it. You set it yourself; qMEET doesn't check it.

🏃 Do / 👀 Follow

Whether you actually do something or just follow it — two different things, and Member Search can tell them apart. A dimmed 🏃 on a chip means you haven't said either way. Don't confuse this with Interested?, which is about a single event, not about you.

Top interests

The same thing as 😍 Love — two words for one rating. Interest Tracker and Member Match both call it “Top”; My Interests & Skills, where you set it, calls it Love. Use it sparingly: it carries the most weight in matching.

Availability

The days and times you're usually free, marked on your profile. Organizers see charts of when most people can actually make it — it's the difference between guessing a date and knowing one.

Contacts

Your own list of qMEET people, so you can find and message them again without searching. Separate from event membership.

1:1 Chat — the 💬 Full view

Private messages with one member, held in an inbox you can come back to. The default, and one of the two Chat menu entries. Open it.

Live Chat — the ⚡ Live view

The same messages as 1:1 Chat, shown in real time with typing indicators and read receipts. Not a separate conversation — a different window onto the same one, reached from the view switch at the top of chat.

Chat Room

A group conversation attached to an event, group or interest — everyone there sees it. This is the one that isn't private, and the second of the two Chat menu entries.

Chat (Low Data) — the 📶 Low data view

Again the same 1:1 messages, stripped to text only for a poor connection or a tight data plan. Also on the view switch — and qMEET offers it by itself when your phone reports a slow or metered link.

Bloop

A one-tap time-sensitive nudge. Pressing 📢 Bloop sends the word “bloop” to the person you're chatting with, flagged Time-Sensitive, and pushes a notification to their phone straight away — for when you need them to look now rather than eventually. Time-sensitive messages show in magenta (priority ones in red), and the chat bar at the top of the screen turns the same color. There's a Bloop (LiveChat) button in the ⚡ Live view that does the same thing.

Action Item

A message somebody still owes something on. It's the one mark reading doesn't clear — only ✓ Done does. ⋯ → 🎯 Action Item flags it for you on a message that already exists; at send time, press and hold ▶ and tick 🎯 Action Item for Them, 🎯 Action Item for Me, or both — so one message can carry both marks and they never tread on each other. It never pushes or pings. The 🎯 N action items pill counts the open ones across every conversation. For Them is direct messages only.

Time-Sensitive

A message that needs looking at now, and the magenta badge it wears. To send one, press and hold ▶ and pick ‼ Time-Sensitive: it turns the message magenta, floats it to the very top of their list, pushes it to them, and keeps re-pinging them until they read it (it stops on its own after 24 hours). Reading it is what clears the flag. Sent one by mistake? ⋯ → ▶ Change to Normal Priority on your own message takes it back off, or ⋯ → ❗ Change to Priority keeps it on top and just stops the chasing. Direct messages only. This was called Urgent before.

Priority

A message that matters but doesn't need to chase anyone, and the red badge it wears. Press and hold ▶ and pick ❗ Priority: it turns the message red and floats it to the top of their list — just below anything time-sensitive — but never re-pings them. Tick 🔔 Notify too if you want one push when it lands. It is not the opposite of ⬇ Low Priority, which is a different thing entirely (a message their Hide Low Priority filter can tuck away). This was called Urgent (Don't Notify), then High Priority, and until 2026-09-10 it wore magenta like Time-Sensitive.

Text Replacements

Words qMEET swaps automatically as you send a message — your own shorthand, expanded.

Status

A short note or mood on your profile — what you're up to, or up for. It has nothing to do with an event's status; same word, different thing.

Check-In

Saying "I'm here now" at a place, for a window of time, so nearby members can join you. Built for spur-of-the-moment meet-ups rather than planned events. It expires on its own.

Place

A venue you've saved or added — the thing you check in to. Places can be reused across check-ins and events.

Alert Bar

The strip that surfaces anything timely — a new invitation, an imminent event, an unread message — wherever you are on the site.

Quiet Hours

A daily window — say 10pm to 7am — when qMEET holds back push notifications. It does not hold back email: a muted phone shouldn't cost you the reminder. Set yours.

Do Not Disturb

A one-tap 12-hour mute, for right now rather than every night. It expires on its own, and like Quiet Hours it silences push only. Same card as Quiet Hours on Notifications.

Simple mode (Site Mode)

How much of the menu you see: Simple, Standard or Everything. New accounts start on Standard; Simple trims the menu to the essentials and Everything puts it all back. It only removes menu entries — every page still opens from a direct link, and nothing is switched off. Change it in Preferences.

Survey

A set of questions attached to an event or group — poll the guests on food, timing, or anything else. Anyone can take one; organizers create them.

Default Page

Where qMEET opens when you launch it or click the logo. Set it in Preferences.

Bad-word filter

An optional per-account setting that masks offensive language in chat. Off means you see messages as written.

Block / Flag

Block stops a member reaching you at all. Flag reports content to us for review. You can do either without the other person being told.