new update

Motownmadmann2023

anyone else miss the old format of the site. i dilike this new layout

PaPenguin

Looks like we updated to the 90's. So sad.

lynn_glenmont

I think what irritates me about it is that it seems to be completely cosmetic, so somebody thought it was worth wasting coding resources for a cosmetic change when there seem to be a lot of functional issues that bother users, some of them for years, and there's nothing done about them. (Other than problems with syncing, and foods that I've logged recently that mysteriously don't show up on the app when I go to log them again, I don't have a lot of functional complaints, but I see others posting about them frequently.)

coyotetotem

What the hell were they thinking. Took a nice compact format and turned it into a giant slow running mess. Bring back the old format NOW

Fursian

I don't understand these new changes. It looks like I'm not alone. The water change in the food diary has actually put me off bothering with it.

There's a few threads in the Feature Suggestions and Ideas category if you want to share your feedback.

springlering62

I’m seeing these posts all over. iOS version looks exactly the same. Are you all using desktop?

cmriverside

@springlering62

Yeah, desktop is a hot mess.

cheazdad

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10941598/new-update

I'm hating it, too much white space and I have to scroll more to do what used to take seconds.. please fix it

AnnPT77

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48662873#Comment_48662873

It's the browser version of MFP.

I use both. When I saw that people were complaining, I found the change in the browser version. It appears to me that the food diary browser version now looks more like the phone/tablet food diary.

What do I think? I don't care. Probably if I thought about it, I'd see pros and cons. I don't see the point of wasting that much energy thinking about it: Doesn't seem like a cataclysmic big deal. You probably know from my other posts that I don't like drama, and I'm used to working with software and it's a truth that software constantly changes. Meh.

If I were to speculate, I'd guess that they've rewritten the code behind the page to a more modern and more easily modified version, so that they can go on to implement some of the app-only features in the web version. That would be a wild guess, though.

The web version is much older than the app. A fact about old software is that as changes accumulate over the years, the behind-the-scenes part gets messy and complicated, harder to live with, harder to change further. At some point, to move forward, it needs a complete re-do, kind of start over.

In that way, it's like (say) our kitchen: We can go along for a while adding a shelf here, a towel bar there, figuring out where the heck to keep the new air fryer, wanting to put in a bigger refrigerator, shoehorning in some little butcher block table when we're really like an island but it won't fit, etc. Eventually, it just all gets too awkward, ugly, cobbled together, and we can't productively tweak things more. So we tear the whole thing out and completely put in a new kitchen. The new kitchen will have some great things, but also some things we wish were different. At first, it will also probably have some things that don't work right, and need to be fixed - doors/drawers that clash when opened, light switches that didn't get connected right, etc. So we fixing errors, and also start adding a shelf here, and a towel bar there . . . .

Also, there will also be some family members who totally don't like the new kitchen, wish we still had the old one. Maybe it doesn't fit their needs, sure; but a surprising number of people just don't like things to change.

springlering62

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48662931#Comment_48662931

I just logged in to desktop and actually really like it. It’s similar to the iOS app layout. Easy to read, not crunched together, visually a LOT more pleasing. That’s why I never used the desktop version. Too cluttered, each line was too full of dense type.

Can’t please all the people all the time, I suppose, lol.

glassyo

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48662946#Comment_48662946

We are so the opposite on this. The desktop version was easy to read, could automatically see the breakdown of the categories followed (cracked that code but the formating is still off), and the app just never worked right for me.

yirara

I feel it's not logical. You add all sorts of calories and macros together, and then end up with the total above. Which in this design looks like it belongs below the meal moment above because things don't line up. Look at this: The calories and macros the way they are presented here belong to the meal moment above Lunch because (maybe I'm old) a line means calculations below and because Lunch and the numbers are not aligned. Whoever designed this just threw some things together and added a lot of useless whitespace.

yirara

And then there's this very useful piechart. Seriously, if you use a chat put numbers on it. Next to the additional scrolling I also now have to move my mouse pointer over each section to see some numbers.

cmriverside

…and when you add exercise it doesn't show unless you hover over the little black Exclamation Point.

…it's not just that it's different, it's not nearly as easy to read.

…and those little bitty numbers at the very bottom with the totals? Please bold those. I imagine they made them "less" green and red because some peoples' feels, but. Just ugh. No likey.

cmriverside

..and yeah. I know I'm complaining into the ether.

cmriverside

LOL now it's really mad.

yirara

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48663167#Comment_48663167

I'd think twice about hugging a glass of milk, but please feel yourself hugged ❤️