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This'll work better when there are more meetups. The widget shows the (I think) six nearest meetups. The three extant meetups (at time of writing) are all in the set of six nearest meetups.
Or, you could just change it to the unconditionally accurate label "upcoming meetups".
Or the more informative "Nearest meetups".
It only shows three, and they're not the nearest. You've already labeled the page that "nearby meetups" links to as "Upcoming Events".
I'm sorry to keep hammering this, but ... :-/
It's currently showing all meetups that exist because only 3 exist. They are the nearest 3 of all meetups that exist.
The page it links to shows all meetups, not the few near ones the sidebar will show.
Let's keep going until we both understand - I'm often wrong, but don't understand how the current design is wrong.
I mentioned "only three" because a now-deleted part of your earlier comment said there were six.
In any case, I'm pretty sure that there are other scheduled meetups closer to me (Houston, Austin, NC, LA) -- is this only drawing from a list that are formatted or registered?
Also, it's disconcerting for Australia to be called "nearby", and only a little less so for it to count as "nearest", even if that's literally true for that set.
Only three meetups have been entered using the new system. Many other meetups have been announced using normal posts in the Discussion area, and summarised in promoted meetup summary posts (which was the official way to announce meetups a day ago).
There are many meetups not yet entered into the new system, and their coverage of the globe is pretty good. I think Australian meetups will disappear from your list in a few days.
There will be some users who really are geographically far from any organised meetups… perhaps they could resolve their disconcertion by organising a close meetup :)
Okay, I didn't know it was only listing meetups from a new entry system (rather than, say, all recurring meetups). Any reason Australia is above Seattle? (I know that's pretty minor as an issue.)
I think the earliest meetups are at the top of the list.
And we're back to the question of why it doesn't just say "upcoming meetups", without the need to point out that these are "nearby"...