It didn't take long - MyFitnessPal rolls out its first paid offering!

Last time I put any serious money into a website it closed without any warning and I lost everything I paid for...never again. Learned my lesson the first time.

I can't remember ever seeing any adds. It's odd that some do and some don't. ..

I haven't noticed any difference with the old version now that the premium is an option, other than the annoying "hey, we have premium now" every time I sign in. I saw a few people who are having glitches but maybe they are using the phone app and not the website - the website seems the same to me. I guess being one of the, what, 5 or 6 people on here who use the Windows Phone app I am not seeing the same stuff everyone else does so I am not seeing how it has changed on that side of it for the free users.

vorgas wrote: »

It Didn't Take Long
2005 - MyFitnessPal is launched.
2015 - MyFitnessPal adds a paid option for those wishing more features.
10 years isn't long?

For comparison, here is a state of the art cell phone in 2005

christinev297 wrote: »

I can't remember ever seeing any adds. It's odd that some do and some don't. ..

A lot of us use ad blockers. I use ghostery.

I've never used any add blockers. Unless my phone automatically does it... :huh:

I've enjoyed using MFP but won't pay for the premium version at this time. I work at a large medical organization which has just introduced a website and app for logging nutrion/exercise. It's free and comes with incentives, the more you use it, the more chances you earn in their monthly drawings for stuff like Fitbits.

SharonNehring wrote: »

I've enjoyed using MFP but won't pay for the premium version at this time. I work at a large medical organization which has just introduced a website and app for logging nutrion/exercise. It's free and comes with incentives, the more you use it, the more chances you earn in their monthly drawings for stuff like Fitbits.

I've come across something fun I think I'll try as well... incentive sites make it new and exciting and can help a lot with motivation.

Commander_Keen wrote: »

I don't get it, I have seen post where people are begging to have a paid version, no add version. Now that they have it, people are poo poo'ing it?

There's actually quite a few ppl that have shared that they have gone premium so there are some happy folks. I think others of us feel let down that things weren't repaired before offering the pay version.

It's not Mike Lee or Al (creators of the site) or even MFP itself, it's the recent buy out that's caused this. Mike always seemed to truly care about each of us on here. Way back in the day Mike was on the board all the time, it was a very small site. He's passionate but He's also a business man and just sold MFP for $475 million (? am I correct in the amount..I think so). I don't know that He has much say so over any of this anymore. But guess that's what happens when you create, build and then sell what you've invented. You move on to other endeavors.

Sorta feels like somebody died... things have changed and won't be the same anymore as division continues.

Well I think I've spent far more time on these threads today concerning this than I have in all my years here. lol

I think that it's completely asinine. Expecting the website to work properly without bugs, with proper spam filters, with active and accurate moderation, with data transfer, without crashing, and so on should already be provided.

As someone who has supported MFP for 4 years now and undoubtedly made them revenue and help build their user base (not only in my activity but in referring MANY new users), i feel like it's not fair to users to treat them as second class citizens because we won't pay the exorbitant fee of $10.00 a month. If they have that technology available i think they should provide it to all users.

Additionally, I think it's ridiculous that they want to charge users to use the database (and run reports) with USER added food entries. As a community the MFP database has become what it is today. To take the information we decided to share (for free for the betterment of all users) and then use that to make money in this fashion is crazy.

Lastly, there's the issue I have with the problems currently associated with MFP. Let's be honest... The number of duplicate food entries, entries with inaccurate calorie information, inaccurate macro/micro nutrient information, and seemingly NO quality assurance to verify makes the "We want to offer them a way to make custom reports, to dig deeper into the nutrient density of the food, and to customize the measurements used to plan their meals." idea completely null and void. How are they planning on cleaning up the database to make these features actually usable as a sell-able feature?

What is going to happen with the current security issues MFP is having? Even the simplest of items like incorporating a 2-step verification to post threads doesn't currently exist. So we are constantly bombarded with new users/posts with spam. I have had problems with their current ads force-opening the app store on my mobile device. I have had page re-directing ads. Dont get me started on the slew of consistent bugs on the app version of MFP.

Right now there are just way too many things wrong with MFP to even consider for a second paying that fee. Even if MFP were perfect and the above issues were fixed, i would still pay MAX $3-5 a month. And they'd have to be offering something more stimulating than their current offer.