Why hasn't MFP improved?

Maxxitt

With this and all other apps and sites, I use what I can and leave the rest. None of them owes users anything.

MissyCHF

MFP, aren't miracle workers.They give us the tools to do the work if we haven't the gumption to use them or are to lazy to get on and do it, why blame them!

allenpriest

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doittoitgirl wrote: »

I don't put any of this responsibility on MFP because.....well..... the info is out there if you are willing to look for it for 5 min. But I can't understand why 20 times a day someone asks "why am I not losing weight" and 100 ppl ask them the same questions: "are you logging accurately? Are you plateauing? Are you eating back exercise cals? Etc..." and no one ever learns. There's even an info graphic floating around to answer all these questions for the user.

Like I said above, if it were the same people asking the same questions over and over it would be different, but it's mostly not and when it is it seems like people here call them on it. A good rule of thumb for online forums is "New users know nothing, including how to use the search function". Literally every forum on the internet that exists to give and receive advice or information has the exact same issue of 75% of new users asking the same questions as every other new user (regardless of FAQs or pinned posts that answer them), and of half of those users rejecting any and all advice given. It's not an MFP thing, it's not a weightloss/fitness thing... it's an internet forum thing.

I still don't understand why MFP hasn't taken the common misuse and misunderstanding of their tool and tried to improve it?

It's FREE.

If you don't like the free app there are others n

Or write your own with exactly what you want.

sicutz

There's too much difference or lacking features between the app and the website, the add yesterday's breakfast for instance isn't on the website only on the app.

The app is pretty good, it's the website that needs more quick helpful features.

They need to behave similarly and consistently.

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SezxyStef

sicutz wrote: »

There's too much difference or lacking features between the app and the website, the add yesterday's breakfast for instance isn't on the website only on the app.

The app is pretty good, it's the website that needs more quick helpful features.

They need to behave similarly and consistently.

no I htink you are mistaken with that...

I just checked on the website and you can copy from yesterday...I prefer the website to be honest.

duskyjewel

So much for moderators supposedly never showing up on the boards. They just closed the thread from that fool eating 500-900 calories a day.

duskyjewel

I've also been on MFP since 2012. Two concrete improvements I know of are the verified entries for foods (with the check mark) and being able to import recipes from websites really easily. I'm pretty sure the verified entries happened after UA bought the site.

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Alatariel75

duskyjewel wrote: »

I've also been on MFP since 2012. Two concrete improvements I know of are the verified entries for foods (with the check mark) and being able to import recipes from websites really easily. I'm pretty sure the verified entries happened after UA bought the site.

I think the asterisked items (which were USDA entries) were much better than the green checks - so many of them are plain wrong, but the green mark makes people think they can trust them.

malibu927

duskyjewel wrote: »

I've also been on MFP since 2012. Two concrete improvements I know of are the verified entries for foods (with the check mark) and being able to import recipes from websites really easily. I'm pretty sure the verified entries happened after UA bought the site.

Except verified entries can be wildly erroneous

Alatariel75

malibu927 wrote: »

duskyjewel wrote: »

I've also been on MFP since 2012. Two concrete improvements I know of are the verified entries for foods (with the check mark) and being able to import recipes from websites really easily. I'm pretty sure the verified entries happened after UA bought the site.

Except verified entries can be wildly erroneous

There's a verified entry for "Chinese buffet-1 plate" for 1000 calories.

BarneyRubbleMD

SezxyStef wrote: »

sicutz wrote: »

There's too much difference or lacking features between the app and the website, the add yesterday's breakfast for instance isn't on the website only on the app.

The app is pretty good, it's the website that needs more quick helpful features.

They need to behave similarly and consistently.

no I htink you are mistaken with that...

I just checked on the website and you can copy from yesterday...I prefer the website to be honest.

Yep! on the website, I copy my meals from a prior day to the present day almost every day. Sure makes it easier than selecting all the foods again. It even lets me copy my lunch meal of a prior day to my dinner meal (or any meal) of the present day if I switch things around a little--that's also convenient.

SezxyStef

however I did notice that the website is "not secure" per my web bar...

so in other words don't enter passwords etc...

Dreamyriver

RoxieDawn wrote: »

The only problem I have with the recipe builder is when using web version, I wish I could search my 22 pages of recipes in alpha order.

I don't know if this is still an issue but if it is, I copied the links to all my MFP recipes (50+ pages!!) and put them into google sheets. That way I can easily search and order them and (this is the best bit) because I copied the link, clicking it in google sheets takes me straight to the recipe in MFP where I can log it in my diary.

So yes, took a little time to do the initial copying, but incredibly worth it since.