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Myself and at least one other Android user get blank community even after running a Google Play update for MFP
Canada and UK
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Hi @PAV8888 We are aware the community section in the Android app is not working.
Unfortunately there is an issue with how the web view in the Android app views the new theme and I have our Android team working on it. In the meantime Android users can access the community by going community.myfitnesspal.com in a mobile browser and login there.
Our team has been busy writing bug tickets this morning and I'll be putting together a known bug issue page in a few and will share the link here as well.
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@Betty Thank you for continuing to monitor this thread and responding!
One thing that I did want to mention is frustrating: in the old forum layout, there was always a link at the bottom of the page that could take you back to the group/category (i.e. up a level). This was very handy, because you could read through the thread, post etc. and you're left at the bottom of the page, then it was very quick & easy to navigate back to the group/category to choose another thread. Now, however, you have to either scroll all the way back to the top of the page (slow) or use the 'back' button on the browser (which isn't ideal if you've read through multiple pages in the thread, obviously that will just take you back to the previous page).
I think that a "how-to" page or similar with information on formatting would be useful for many members as well. I would love to know how I can do things like colour font, centre align text etc. but I don't see this in the paragraph menu and since bbcode no longer functions, I'm not sure how to include many formatting elements in my posts!
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Popping in to drop this Outstanding Bugs link here. We are still busy filling more bugs and providing feedback to our forum provider to see what things can be changed or customized on their end.
Again I may not respond to each post, but I am listening and collecting info that can be passed along.
A "How To" for formatting and navigation is on our list of things to do, but we wanted to focus on getting bugs in front of eyes first.
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another vote for much better with the post borders.
also- on plus side, MANY more smileys! 🤩🥕🤓🎅
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Question - Is there any way to preview your post before submitting?
This is handy for dumbos like me who are posting a picture or somethiing and not sure if it worked - you can see the finished product before submitting.
(yes I know you can also edit within 1 hour,if you make a mistake, same as before)
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There was one yesterday and then it disappeared. Or maybe I imagined it?
Edit: Would it be possible to move "mark all read" to the top next to preferences? It would be more user friendly because the notifications window is tall.
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I've a great idea @Betty let's scrap this new stuff and bring back the old view 😃 what do ya say ? 😉
I echo whoever said.. bring back so we can see the number of posts again in a thread instead of just the word "new" 😬
Someone else mentioned we either adapt and stay or don't and leave. Im staying but that doesn't mean some of the fun hasnt been sucked out of the place. 😫
I'll learn to use it as best I can but the new changes do not seem to be to make it easier for mobile users or the social users with lots of bookmarks especially.
Hmmm 🤔 I bookmarked this and yet it doesn't show in my bookmarked list.. weird .
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I have to say that I find it a tad boring. Where is all the colour? I'm on desktop. Also the spacing between lines is too big. Not that it matters a lot, but I've probably never seen it so big. I guess I'll get used to it.
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It takes getting used to design changes at first, but people do get used to this (I'm already sorta used to it, although still hyperaware). Trust me, in a few months, you won't even remember what the big deal was, and may even feel attached to it when it changes again in a few years. This is my third forum layout on MFP. I remember the previous change was a bit jarring too for a few days.
The only difference is that I could feel the previous layout was on brand right from the beginning even though I was hyperaware that it wasn't what I was used to. This one seems to be following a newer more generic design trend so it doesn't feel on brand (the difference in design between the main website and the forums is partly to blame for that, too). That's to be expected, though, because modern design values streamlining over customization because it needs to cater to more platforms and screens than the designs of the past.
Give it some time. Humans resist change by nature, but they're also quick to adapt to it.
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I hate it, but have no choice but to use it... so yeah, I'll get used to it. 🙂
Its probably a lot easier for those using the main forums, Health and Fitness etc maybe idk, but many of us just use the social type forums on our phones. I've had to cull many bookmarks because it was too hard in the new view to see so many pages. I am more worried that many of my friends with decide its been made all too hard and leave.. F&G and Chit Chat will die 🥺
I've just gotta put on my big girl pants and suck it up. 😉
Im sure there'll be lots of teething problems to be addressed, so who knows how it will eventually look 🤷♀️
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My Bookmarks and My Discussions in both Edge and Chrome.
Expecting 11 and 99 respectively based on the side panel.
I get a single page of 8 and a single page of 18 respectively, with no ability to scroll past or to select additional pages.
I speculatively added and removed 4 bookmarks.
They showed up on the single page that was previously displaying 8 bringing the total to 12. While the side panel changed from 11 to 15. And then the page returned to showing 8 with the side panel claiming 11 when I removed them.
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Right some further thoughts clarifying my previous comments.
So I use two screens (actually I use three, but the two big ones are the same). One is my laptop screen (res 1600x900) and the other is an external monitor (res 1920x1080). On my laptop screen the font size looks fine. I mean it's still quite large, but it doesn't look blurry or hard to look at. However, on the big screen it does. It's probably something to do with the scaling of that font. I'm going to keep banging on about font because I think it's the issue here. (also this is not a me problem, I have checked this with my personal and work computers (different screens, different computers and it's the same thing)
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I'm getting used to it bit by bit. :) I do wish disagree would either disappear or we could see who the posters are. Even with the other buttons as well. Another site I go to, when you click a button they bring up the string of posters. Good idea Yay or Nay?
Thanks for all the work everyone does behind the scenes that most of us are not aware of!
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@Deviette what are the size of your large screens? I am on a 27" iMac and the font is enormous. Also what browser do you use? I mostly use firefox but when things render weird I'll use Safari. In this case there was no difference. Chrome is a no go for me.
As I've said in other posts the font is so enormous that I have to set to 80%. Often on web sites I have to increase to 120% because the font is too small. One thing that is helping me is to narrow the browser to cut down on white space. The borders that were added yesterday were also helpful.
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Happy Friday All! I still need to get caught up on posts from overnight, but I have some hopefully good news for y'all....
We were able to revert back to BBCode for the time being!!!
We will eventually need to transition to their new editor for posting as BBCode will no longer be supported if things start to break, but we have given them ample amounts of feedback about what is missing from the new editor in hopes we can make it work for us before embracing the newness.
This should fix the issue with not being able to add images to spoilers, the line spacing issues, the option to change color is back and quotes will go back to normal.
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I'm getting used to it bit by bit.
I do wish disagree would either disappear or we could see who the posters are. Even with the other buttons as well. Another site I go to, when you click a button they bring up the string of posters. Good idea Yay or Nay?
Thanks for all the work everyone does behind the scenes that most of us are not aware of!
I have always thought being able to see who disagreed, liked, hugged etc would be much better.
- stops disagree stalkers, people have to own their clicks
- stops needing a post to say it was you - eg somebody answers my query about xyz, I dont get back to the thread till later, instead of having to quote and say thank you, I just click like and they can see I appreciated it (does that make sense?)
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I see my issue with previewing a post has been fixed and we can do so again Yay!
But the smileys just back to the few old ones - Not yay
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I have poor eyesight and set the zoom to 125%. This makes the 'new post menu' into a large, obnoxious blue circle in the threads. I could see having it as an option when viewing the list of threads, but why inside a thread?0
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LazyBlondeChef wrote: »Deviette what are the size of your large screens? I am on a 27" iMac and the font is enormous. Also what browser do you use? I mostly use firefox but when things render weird I'll use Safari. In this case there was no difference. Chrome is a no go for me.
As I've said in other posts the font is so enormous that I have to set to 80%. Often on web sites I have to increase to 120% because the font is too small. One thing that is helping me is to narrow the browser to cut down on white space. The borders that were added yesterday were also helpful.
Large monitors are 26"ish measured by me (so probably 27" actually). Small one is 13" laptop. I use chrome on my work computer and firefox at home. I've not noticed a difference.
On the other subject of seeing who's liked/hugged/ect. I'd actually prefer not to be able to see who's done what. Personally I don't care who's voted on mine, and only once or twice have I thought, who's done that and why. And even then, you know what I did, I got over it. I cannot see how changing to full visibility isn't going to just cause more arguments.1 -
its not a matter of getting over it - and I cant see how it will cause more arguments.
Clarity and transparency is better IMO.
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Happy Monday! Going to get caught up in reading posts in this thread and will respond where I can. Even if I don't respond to your particular post I have still read it and am keeping track of feedback for future improvements.
If you run into a technical issue, please contact our support team so we can gather information and write bug tickets where needed. Please contact support by clicking on this link: https://myfitnesspal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new or send an email to support@myfitnesspal.com with your device information, and exact problem and our support team will investigate.0 -
My Bookmarks and My Discussions in both Edge and Chrome.
Expecting 11 and 99 respectively based on the side panel.
I get a single page of 8 and a single page of 18 respectively, with no ability to scroll past or to select additional pages.
I speculatively added and removed 4 bookmarks.
They showed up on the single page that was previously displaying 8 bringing the total to 12. While the side panel changed from 11 to 15. And then the page returned to showing 8 with the side panel claiming 11 when I removed them.
Hi @PAV8888 would you mind contacting support and providing screenshots and as much information as possible so we can look into this bookmark issue. Thanks!
You can contact support by clicking on this link: https://myfitnesspal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new or send an email to support@myfitnesspal.com with your device information, and exact problem and our support team will investigate.0 -
My Bookmarks and My Discussions in both Edge and Chrome.
Expecting 11 and 99 respectively based on the side panel.
I get a single page of 8 and a single page of 18 respectively, with no ability to scroll past or to select additional pages.
I speculatively added and removed 4 bookmarks.
They showed up on the single page that was previously displaying 8 bringing the total to 12. While the side panel changed from 11 to 15. And then the page returned to showing 8 with the side panel claiming 11 when I removed them.
Hi @PAV8888 would you mind contacting support and providing screenshots and as much information as possible so we can look into this bookmark issue. Thanks!
You can contact support by clicking on this link: https://myfitnesspal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new or send an email to support@myfitnesspal.com with your device information, and exact problem and our support team will investigate.
will try to do later... but on a hunch... what would happen if I had a bookmark to a discussion that was later moderated into shut-down? Mind you, though I can recall one discussion that I started getting shut down, I don't actually recall having three shut-downs on ones I started, so maybe not--or just memory lapses!
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LazyBlondeChef wrote: »Deviette what are the size of your large screens? I am on a 27" iMac and the font is enormous. Also what browser do you use? I mostly use firefox but when things render weird I'll use Safari. In this case there was no difference. Chrome is a no go for me.
As I've said in other posts the font is so enormous that I have to set to 80%. Often on web sites I have to increase to 120% because the font is too small. One thing that is helping me is to narrow the browser to cut down on white space. The borders that were added yesterday were also helpful.
Large monitors are 26"ish measured by me (so probably 27" actually). Small one is 13" laptop. I use chrome on my work computer and firefox at home. I've not noticed a difference.
On the other subject of seeing who's liked/hugged/ect. I'd actually prefer not to be able to see who's done what. Personally I don't care who's voted on mine, and only once or twice have I thought, who's done that and why. And even then, you know what I did, I got over it. I cannot see how changing to full visibility isn't going to just cause more arguments.
I disagreed with what your said, i.e. the premise that it would HAVE to lead to more arguments. Some people who just play with it will just stop. Some people who click on it deliberately without real reason will proudly continue to do so giving the proverbial finger, and most people who just disagree with what has been said as opposed to leveling an indictment against the person saying it will have a quick way of saying so without necessarily having to type out that this was what they did.
Should it be retroactive? To protect the guilty I would suggest maybe wiping all the disagrees and starting again from zero if the ability to see who (already available to moderators) is ever implemented.2 -
LazyBlondeChef wrote: »Deviette what are the size of your large screens? I am on a 27" iMac and the font is enormous. Also what browser do you use? I mostly use firefox but when things render weird I'll use Safari. In this case there was no difference. Chrome is a no go for me.
As I've said in other posts the font is so enormous that I have to set to 80%. Often on web sites I have to increase to 120% because the font is too small. One thing that is helping me is to narrow the browser to cut down on white space. The borders that were added yesterday were also helpful.
Large monitors are 26"ish measured by me (so probably 27" actually). Small one is 13" laptop. I use chrome on my work computer and firefox at home. I've not noticed a difference.
On the other subject of seeing who's liked/hugged/ect. I'd actually prefer not to be able to see who's done what. Personally I don't care who's voted on mine, and only once or twice have I thought, who's done that and why. And even then, you know what I did, I got over it. I cannot see how changing to full visibility isn't going to just cause more arguments.
I disagreed with what your said, i.e. the premise that it would HAVE to lead to more arguments. Some people who just play with it will just stop. Some people who click on it deliberately without real reason will proudly continue to do so giving the proverbial finger, and most people who just disagree with what has been said as opposed to leveling an indictment against the person saying it will have a quick way of saying so without necessarily having to type out that this was what they did.
Should it be retroactive? To protect the guilty I would suggest maybe wiping all the disagrees and starting again from zero if the ability to see who (already available to moderators) is ever implemented.
But here's my point. Why do you care who reacts to your post? As in, why does the specific user matter? The only benefit I can see of allowing everyone to see who's voted on who is to see who's super active, who the little cliques are, and who you can be annoyed about at this very moment in time, (and who you can be annoyed with for not reacting to your post). And none of those are a benefit in my eyes. I'm prepared to be told of other benefits, but I'm struggling to see them right now. Note: I consider "being able to tell who the person that's vindictively disliking you" the same as "who you can be annoyed about at this very moment in time", because if you know someone is disliking your posts ... why does it matter if it's a specific person or just a generic "someone keeps disliking me", so what?
Besides, if someone's really that bothered about being vindictive then they'll just make a new account for the purpose of disliking posts. But I don't think someone going on a disliking spree happens nearly as much as people like to complain about it.0 -
I just noticed that there's no longer an option to go to the first post of a thread. Now you can only go back page by page. (In a forum with 6,000 posts, this woke me very time consuming.) Going back to the first post is helpful if you want to join in on a 'game' and want to check out the rules - which are set out in the first post.0
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I just noticed that there's no longer an option to go to the first post of a thread. Now you can only go back page by page. (In a forum with 6,000 posts, this woke me very time consuming.) Going back to the first post is helpful if you want to join in on a 'game' and want to check out the rules - which are set out in the first post.
Is the first page not showing as an option for you in those threads as below?
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Hmmm. I can see that, but it doesn't look like that on other threads. I'm on my Android phone, in the browser. Maybe it's part of the Android bug that's being worked on?
All I get when I click on either direction is the previous/next page.
ETA: other examples...
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Hmmm. I can see that, but it doesn't look like that on other threads. I'm on my Android phone, in the browser. Maybe it's part of the Android bug that's being worked on?
All I get when I click on either direction is the previous/next page.
ETA: other examples...
HI @cmsienk Thank you for the screenshots. This is not related to the Android app issue, but is a bug that we have filed for mobile view in general. Our forum provider has acknowledged the ticket and is looking into.1
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