What features would you be willing to pay a little extra for?
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cmriverside wrote: »patrickaa5 wrote: »I would pay if MFP could somehow autofix the "lose vs loose" problem.
Hahah I swear I see people getting this wrong all over social media and other platforms... to the point that it's a pleasant surprise when I do actually see it spelled correctly. I guess it's the same as the misused apostrophe problem... just have to accept that people don't get it.
The worst part is when I start second guessing myself about such commonly mistaken grammar things...like judgement/judgment. I don't have to judge any more. They're both right! Same with the Oxford comma - it's a free-for-all now!!
Canada geese, though. That one kills me. It isn't Canadian geese.
..and now we've successfully highjacked this thread into a grammar-nazi thread. *lesigh*
Well, if anyone was going to listen to our feedback they would have gotten rid of the Woo reaction a long time ago, so <shrug>.6 -
Duck_Puddle wrote: »Chef_Barbell wrote: »Duck_Puddle wrote: »I would like to be able to edit an existing food entry via the app. You can do this on the web if the existing entry is incorrect, but not on the app. So when I search for something and can’t find a correct entry, I then have to create yet another entry for the same exact food because the 147 existing entries are net carbs or missing half the nutrients or the manufacturer changed the info 3 years ago or typos or whatever.
I don’t know if I would pay the premium price that though.
I report the food and then click the box "save the new info to my foods" and I'm able to enter the new info without having to make an entry.
I have logged all my food for 7 years and I’ve never seen that. 😂😂😂 thank you.
They sneakily put it in... I noticed it randomly one day when I was logging. :laugh:0 -
patrickaa5 wrote: »I would pay if MFP could somehow autofix the "lose vs loose" problem.
Hahah I swear I see people getting this wrong all over social media and other platforms... to the point that it's a pleasant surprise when I do actually see it spelled correctly. I guess it's the same as the misused apostrophe problem... just have to accept that people don't get it.
Oh, I am constantly correcting apostrophes in shared docs at work...0 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »Duck_Puddle wrote: »Chef_Barbell wrote: »Duck_Puddle wrote: »I would like to be able to edit an existing food entry via the app. You can do this on the web if the existing entry is incorrect, but not on the app. So when I search for something and can’t find a correct entry, I then have to create yet another entry for the same exact food because the 147 existing entries are net carbs or missing half the nutrients or the manufacturer changed the info 3 years ago or typos or whatever.
I don’t know if I would pay the premium price that though.
I report the food and then click the box "save the new info to my foods" and I'm able to enter the new info without having to make an entry.
I have logged all my food for 7 years and I’ve never seen that. 😂😂😂 thank you.
They sneakily put it in... I noticed it randomly one day when I was logging. :laugh:
That’s honestly been my biggest complaint the entire time-that you can’t correct an entry on the app. It doesn’t happen THAT often but it’s irritating when the closest to correct existing entry has 111g of fat when it should be 11 and everything else is right.
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Fatty_Nuff wrote: »I'd pay if MFP would just clean up it's food database. Yikes, what a mess. Dozens and dozens of entries for "tap water", for example. And some of the spelling...chicken beast, genetic apples. smh Or maybe they just leave those entries there for laughs?
THIS ^^^^ going through loads of incorrect data isn't benefiting anyone.
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I may not pay extra money for it but I would like the option to add or remove certain threads from my recent post feed. For instance, I would hide all posts made to the Goal: Maintaining Weight, Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building, Chit-Chat, and Fun and Games threads because those are not my focus. I don't want to lose them forever but hide them until/if I want to see them again.
ETA: Please give us a search option for the recipes we created. Again, I wouldn't pay extra for it but I think both of these things could at least be included in the premium price.0 -
debrakgoogins wrote: »I may not pay extra money for it but I would like the option to add or remove certain threads from my recent post feed. For instance, I would hide all posts made to the Goal: Maintaining Weight, Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building, Chit-Chat, and Fun and Games threads because those are not my focus. I don't want to lose them forever but hide them until/if I want to see them again.
ETA: Please give us a search option for the recipes we created. Again, I wouldn't pay extra for it but I think both of these things could at least be included in the premium price.
I believe you can filter out the forum headings you don’t wish to see.
And you can search for recipes via the app. But not the web. That won’t be helpful if you don’t use the app though.
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You can filter forums. I think you need to be on the web version to set it up initially. After that, your preferences will carry over to the app.0
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If the app could somehow use my phone’ NFC frequencies to just melt the fat away l would pay for that...4
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The correct answer is to clean up the food database.
My answer is that I would like it if the remaining calories didn't go straight to "What a Failure Red" when you're 8 calories over. I'd prefer a "You're Doing Just Fine, Sugar" yellow until one gets to maintenance cals, then a "Whoah, Slow Down Baby" orange, then red when you're at a surplus.
But I'm the sensitive type.15 -
Aint2Proud2Meg wrote: »The correct answer is to clean up the food database.
I would like it if the remaining calories go straight to "What a Failure Red" when you're 8 calories over. I'd prefer a "You're Doing Just Fine, Sugar" yellow until one gets to maintenance cals, then a "Whoah, Slow Down Baby" orange, then red when you're at a surplus.
But I'm the sensitive type.
That wouldn't work because some people use the app for maintaining and gaining. If the calorie ranges were customizable, that would be a good idea. I often like to eat within a range, so setting "everything is going as planned" for that range would be cool. I often ignore the colors to the point where I don't even pay attention to them anymore. Years of logging toughened my skin quite a bit.3 -
Me too.Aint2Proud2Meg wrote: »The correct answer is to clean up the food database.
I would like it if the remaining calories didn't go straight to "What a Failure Red" when you're 8 calories over. I'd prefer a "You're Doing Just Fine, Sugar" yellow until one gets to maintenance cals, then a "Whoah, Slow Down Baby" orange, then red when you're at a surplus.
But I'm the sensitive type.
It really doesn't help the newbies who think they will gain weight if they go over their calories for the day by any amount.
I've said before that MFP could make it clearer that the calorie ceiling target that you get after you've set your rate of loss is NOT the same as your maintenance calories.
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Aint2Proud2Meg wrote: »The correct answer is to clean up the food database.
I would like it if the remaining calories didn't go straight to "What a Failure Red" when you're 8 calories over. I'd prefer a "You're Doing Just Fine, Sugar" yellow until one gets to maintenance cals, then a "Whoah, Slow Down Baby" orange, then red when you're at a surplus.
But I'm the sensitive type.
Ooo, cool ideas!
And being in the red at 0 calories left is just plain wrong.6 -
I pay for premium because I like having a different calorie goal for each day. But I'm really getting disenchanted with all the bugs, it seems they should test upgrades and changes on a test database and if they are doing that it seems they aren't doing it with enough "users" to find these issues before go live.
Having said that I'd like to see:
Clean up the database (junk in junk out, no wonder some are struggling)
USDA database
add micronutrients
Any added entries verified
Opt out of seeing new friends of friends on my feed
Opt out of the 5 week update and base it on weight trend and not food.
Messenger/chat between friends
Editing comments on feed
Slightly updated interface/graphics
Edit: get rid of the woo button on progress pictures. I understand some think it means woohoo but for those of us that know what it means it's kinda sad to see those on progress pictures.5 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »I pay for premium because I like having a different calorie goal for each day. But I'm really getting disenchanted with all the bugs, it seems they should test upgrades and changes on a test database and if they are doing that it seems they aren't doing it with enough "users" to find these issues before go live.
Having said that I'd like to see:
Clean up the database (junk in junk out, no wonder some are struggling)
USDA database
add micronutrients
Any added entries verified
Opt out of seeing new friends of friends on my feed
Opt out of the 5 week update and base it on weight trend and not food.
Messenger/chat between friends
Editing comments on feed
Slightly updated interface/graphics
Edit: get rid of the woo button on progress pictures. I understand some think it means woohoo but for those of us that know what it means it's kinda sad to see those on progress pictures.
I think I stopped checking my feed when they made the change that started giving us the new friends of friends updates.1 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »
That wouldn't work because some people use the app for maintaining and gaining. If the calorie ranges were customizable, that would be a good idea. I often like to eat within a range, so setting "everything is going as planned" for that range would be cool. I often ignore the colors to the point where I don't even pay attention to them anymore. Years of logging toughened my skin quite a bit.
My thought was that one sets their goals to lose, maintain, or gain. It would just apply differently based on that.
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HeliumIsNoble wrote: »Me too.
It really doesn't help the newbies who think they will gain weight if they go over their calories for the day by any amount.
I've said before that MFP could make it clearer that the calorie ceiling target that you get after you've set your rate of loss is NOT the same as your maintenance calories.
That's exactly who I'm thinking of. Heck, I've been an mfp member for ages (this is my second account) and I still think it would help me on some level. Looking forward to maintenance it would be nice if being in target range, being just a little high/low, and being way over/under appeared in a way that you'd catch at a glance.
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cmriverside wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »I'd pay for a database in which the only whole foods entries were those MFP pulled from the USDA database, didn't have liquid measurements like ml for solid foods, and all the decimal errors were fixed (1 g entries show values for 100 g).
It would need to be a complete database as well. For example, the MFP-created entry "Egg, whole, raw, fresh" has been missing for a few years. I still have it in my Recent, but need to use a user-created entry in the Recipe Builder.
This^^ all day long. Some way to differentiate. Even if it is a different color text that would work: or a second list completely. That doesn't seem to be that hard of a fix. No idea why it has to be difficult. When Mike owned the site, there was an asterisk that was in front of all the user-entered ones and the admin-entered ones didn't have the asterisk. (Or was it the other way 'round?)
The asterisk was the admin entries. I liked that better than the check mark.
I agree with cleaning up the mess of the database.
I also like the idea of changing the colors, maybe a stoplight type colors, green under, yellow within a reasonable range, red over (reversed if you are trying to gain, and maybe green in the middle, yellow on either side, and red beyond that for people in maintenance). The layout could be triggered by choosing your goal. Personally, I don't care about the colors, but I think it would help with some of the confusion.
Ability to filter thread titles by keyword would be awesome. So, block all threads with "something I'm not interested in" in the title.
Finally, not something I would pay for because I don't do net carbs, but a solution to the net carb issues would be awesome. Having a tick box to indicate net carb when entries are made could be one way to help sort, and another check box when setting up the diary/goals. I don't know who's going to do all that work though. This is an example where having the ability to filter threads by keyword would help (for me).
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Completely agreed. Blaring red numbers when I'm 33 cals over just aren't nice.Aint2Proud2Meg wrote: »HeliumIsNoble wrote: »Me too.
It really doesn't help the newbies who think they will gain weight if they go over their calories for the day by any amount.
I've said before that MFP could make it clearer that the calorie ceiling target that you get after you've set your rate of loss is NOT the same as your maintenance calories.
That's exactly who I'm thinking of. Heck, I've been an mfp member for ages (this is my second account) and I still think it would help me on some level. Looking forward to maintenance it would be nice if being in target range, being just a little high/low, and being way over/under appeared in a way that you'd catch at a glance.
I made this thread once, but it didn't catch the popular imagination.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10570677/what-about-an-amendment-to-the-way-the-nutritional-goals-are-displayed-post-set-up#latest
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A pop up like the 5wk update would work for going over calories (make the number over yellow). For example if you went over yet still in a deficit a pop up when completing the diary could just say "great job your still in a defict however you weight loss may be slowed" or " great job you at at maintainance today" or " caution you are eating over your maintance calories for the day" and depending on what you selected as lose or gain it would prompt different/reverse responses.
or something along those lines.2 -
I'd be willing to pay to be able to search my recipes, organize my food lists the way I want and rename foods in my lists.
And I wouldn't pay for it, but wouldn't it be nice to have spell check when people are inputting foods? So many spelling errors in the database.3 -
I'd be willing to pay to be able to search my recipes, organize my food lists the way I want and rename foods in my lists.
And I wouldn't pay for it, but wouldn't it be nice to have spell check when people are inputting foods? So many spelling errors in the database.
Oooh, yasss! So much Chicken Beast out there. (Not that spellcheck would catch that one.)4 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »I'd be willing to pay to be able to search my recipes, organize my food lists the way I want and rename foods in my lists.
And I wouldn't pay for it, but wouldn't it be nice to have spell check when people are inputting foods? So many spelling errors in the database.
Oooh, yasss! So much Chicken Beast out there. (Not that spellcheck would catch that one.)
I found one the other day for lasagna that was spelled with an i. How do you spell lasagna with an i??2 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »I'd be willing to pay to be able to search my recipes, organize my food lists the way I want and rename foods in my lists.
And I wouldn't pay for it, but wouldn't it be nice to have spell check when people are inputting foods? So many spelling errors in the database.
Oooh, yasss! So much Chicken Beast out there. (Not that spellcheck would catch that one.)
I found one the other day for lasagna that was spelled with an i. How do you spell lasagna with an i??
Iasagna. :laugh:3 -
I'm terrible for making typing errors when I search for a food in the database, and only noticing as I press enter.
Imagine my expression when my typing error brings up an exact match.
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I would like to be able to do a "quick" deduct. Just like a quick add but it would let me remove calories and nutrients. Helpful if for example you have a burger out and dont eat the bun. Or you skip the desert in a microwave dinner.4
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »MelanieCN77 wrote: »JohnnytotheB wrote: »It should all be free - all the time.
If something's free, we are usually the actual product. Interestingly, upgrading free services generally doesn't seem to roll back any of the value we 'get to' provide in return.
Pretty much always, with the exception being government and non-profit provided services, and, to some degree, free apps offered to assist you in spending money for a service (say, apps that let you locate a brick-and-mortar store in a given chain and place an in-app order) or to use an online service that you pay for (e.g., Spotify or Netflix on your phone). Any of those probably still use the data gathered for maximizing their revenues, just as a brick-and-mortar store uses general sales info and info linked to reward cards to maximize revenues.
For what it's worth, a lot of software is free because the people who made it feel like that's the right thing to do. Examples are things like Linux, and Apache which almost certainly runs MFP.
In general what you're both saying is true most free things are free because someone made a business decision about the best way to earn money. But that's not always the case.4 -
patrickaa5 wrote: »I would pay if MFP could somehow autofix the "lose vs loose" problem.
Hahah I swear I see people getting this wrong all over social media and other platforms... to the point that it's a pleasant surprise when I do actually see it spelled correctly. I guess it's the same as the misused apostrophe problem... just have to accept that people don't get it.
Do you think that people don't get it (know the difference) or that they just don't care enough to proofread/correct mistakes? Could also be a swipe/autocorrect thing, too.
With apostrophes in particular, I don't think most people know all the rules. English is a hard language to learn, we have weird rules and random exceptions.
A lot of people use apostrophes consistently to make word's plural. (See what I did there?) You have to fight your phone to put them in half the time.
A lot of people put them in possessive its. Which seems right, you'd say Forrest's jacket, if you don't know my name you'd think it's owner would be appropriate. But we don't use apostrophes for its, his, and hers. Because things can't be too easy.
For me, it's because I'm typing on my phone, assuming it's getting the words right instead of proofreading while I formulate my thoughts. If you ever see purile, I meant people.4 -
I pay for the premium because I felt the site is valuable enough to me to support it, but for that price I sure would like them to fix my account so it would start posting my weight losses again. Just stopped a year and a half ago and can't get anyone to respond to me on fixing it.
And the clean up of the food database would be amazing.
I find this odd... premium users are supposed to get "Priority Customer Support". I only had to contact them once a couple years ago and got a reply within a few hours so was pleased with it. Did you contact them using the web form (see here)?
Concerning your issue. I think you are referring to the updates that get posted into the news feed. If so, on their website go to My Home > Settings > Automatic News Feed Update Settings (under Privacy Settings) and make sure "I have lost weight" is checked.
To the OP, I concur with many of the previous posters, wish there was a way for them to clean up the database!
I contacted them a couple times through the form and they responded once that they understood that it was a problem and they were working on it, but I never heard from them again, and nothing was fixed.
I have checked the settings and the "I have lost weight box" is checked. I have tried unchecking all the boxes, then waiting a few days and re-checking them all, but it doesn't fix it.
Maybe I will try contacting them again, it isn't too big of a deal, but it is irritating.
Thank you!1 -
On the website, you need to Follow the forums you do want to see in your recent posts feed, and then set your feed to Following instead of All.debrakgoogins wrote: »I may not pay extra money for it but I would like the option to add or remove certain threads from my recent post feed. For instance, I would hide all posts made to the Goal: Maintaining Weight, Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building, Chit-Chat, and Fun and Games threads because those are not my focus. I don't want to lose them forever but hide them until/if I want to see them again.
ETA: Please give us a search option for the recipes we created. Again, I wouldn't pay extra for it but I think both of these things could at least be included in the premium price.
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