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Cancellations through the service went down, but did actual cancellations (as in, the person just doesn't show) go down?

If you make it harder to cancel you're relying even more heavily on the integrity or conscience of the cancelling party to notify the other group members of their desire to cancel. 90% seems like a really drastic decrease which is why I bring this up.

We call these "no-shows" and, fortunately our no-show rate is less than 0.2%. In other words, both groups show up more than 99.8% of the time.

This will likely be the topic of a future blog post...

Just a hypothesis, but is this because users are committing in groups of 3? I bet no-shows would increase if you paired groups of 2 or 1.

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