-Topics: Meeting organizers are unintentionally checking *all* Topics. Thus, Topic filters don't work as intended.

[unity1979]

To reproduce:
https://recovery-dharma.flywheelsites.com/meetings/find-a-meeting/
List View → Filter → Topics → Food (or Codependency | Wise Friends)

Notice: Meetings not specialized in only Food appear. They seem to have selected multiple topics in confusion.

Examples of meetings that do not specialize in only food, but many topics:
• On the isms: Codependency, Food, General, Other, Wise Friends
• Heavy Metta RD: Codependency, Food, General, Other

Expected Behavior:
Persons searching for food-meetings would only want to see meetings that specialize in only food

[unity1979]

The same is true of Codependency meetings. Appropriate codependency meetings are:

• Codependency Group of RDO
• Wise Intentions, Wise Boundaries

The same is true of Wise Friends meetings. Appropriate Wise Friends meetings are:

• Immediates Support - Family Support (? maybe ?)
• Mentorship and Inquiry Circle Support

[nutjob4life]

My eyes are 52 years old. Your screenshot is unreadable ☹️

However, I am closing this as "unable to reproduce". When I visit the meetings page and do the following:

1. List view
2. Filter
3. Topics
4. Food

every meeting in the list has "Topics: Food".

This includes «On the "Isms"…» and «Heavy Metta».

Looks like it's working! 🥳

[unity1979]

What lovely #FF00FF arrows there! That's helpful. I hear you @nutjob4life.

Okay let me update re-write this bug.

We are seeing meeting organizers check all the Topics boxes. Really, if it's a highly focused meeting, they often mark only one box (I'm thinking like a radio box).

If we look closer at the intended usage of Topics with meetings that specialize in food, we see only a single topic:

Here are examples of unintended usage:

There may be reasons to check more than one box, but checking almost all boxes is not the intended usage, nor is it helpful to the people searching for a meeting to meet people who are working on the same very specific topic.

Proposed Solution:
Can we update the Topics info to be more clear. So instead of "Select the Topics Category" → we might say:
"Do you focus in a special topic? If so, select one (1) below. Otherwise select General" (or something like that)

(Here's what it says currently)

[KrisRecoveryDharma]

This is a feature that has been a struggle for groups for decades on various lists. If a group checks food, then it will show up. It is a way for a group to let others know that they are included, or that the topic comes up often in discussion. Ww could change the instructions, but i think a more egalitarian way would be to use other options such as writing an article highlighting those meetings.

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[unity1979]

I know these topics have been a long struggle, but decades! 😁

Here is a proposed solution:

1. Rename “Topics” → “Topic”
2. Remove the “General” topic (from topics list)
3. Remove the “General” flag for all meetings
4. Change the string “Select the Topics Category”
   
   → “(Skip this—unless the meeting focuses on 1 topic) Select 1 Topic”