Take us with you.

This update is about one thing: making it effortless to bring other people into your travel plans.

Sharing that does the work for you

Until now, telling people about a meetup you were going to meant copying the link and writing something to go with it yourself. Not anymore. Meetups have the same Share button that trips and experiences already had, and it arrives with a caption already written: something like "Join me at [meetup name]!" with the link attached.

Every Share button also got wider. Alongside WhatsApp and copying the link, you'll now see Facebook and Instagram options. Pick one and it hands off with the caption and hashtags already prepared, tuned to what you're sharing. A trip reads differently from a blog post, and the button knows the difference.

The idea is simple. You found something worth sharing. You shouldn't have to stop and think about how to word it.

Links that finally look like something

Here's a small thing that used to bother us. When you pasted a link to a meetup or a member's profile into a chat or a social post, the preview that showed up was a generic 12TravelBuddy thumbnail, with no title, no photo, nothing to tell anyone what they were about to open.

Now those links show a real preview card: the meetup's name and image, or the member's name and photo. And if you edit a meetup after sharing it, the preview catches up instead of showing the old version.

It makes a difference. A link that shows what it is gets clicked. A mystery link gets ignored.

Know which photo is which

Over in My Pictures at /my-pictures, your uploads no longer have to live with cryptic filenames. You can give each photo a proper name, and right after you upload a batch you'll get a quick prompt to name them there and then. Skip it if you're in a hurry, or take ten seconds and thank yourself later when you're hunting for that one shot from the coast.

And soon, in your pocket

One more thing. We've been building a 12TravelBuddy app for Android, and it's close. It'll be live on Google Play, and it's built to feel like the site pared down to what you actually do on your phone: check your feed, reply to messages, see who's headed where.

We're not quite ready to hand out the download link yet. There are a few final checks to get through first. But it's real, it works, and we wanted you to know it's on the way.
- want to become beta tester?? just use the contact form

Go try it

Next time you're planning a meetup or writing up a trip, hit Share and see how little you have to type. And keep an eye on this space for the app.