How About We Don't Delete Newsfeeds

SAVE OUR NEWSFEED

MFP is going to lose so many members of it removes this feature. A lot of us enjoy keeping up with our friends on their fitness journeys. I’ve met some great, supportive people on here. If MFP removes the newsfeed I and many others will be done with this app.

Yeah no point renewing premium if the feed is gone. If I’m no longer seeing my friends accomplishments when loading up the app there’s no reason not to look at other apps to see what they have to offer.

Since the beginning for me in Feb 2015 adding pals and interacting with them through the news feed has been what MFP is all about. Scrolling through my pals' updates for over 3000 days is why I am here. To me, there is no point to MFP if there is not a news feed, I can count calories very well on my own.

I’m test driving two other apps that have newsfeeds. Trying to figure out which one to give my premium membership $’s to, Fatsecret and Lose It! MFP is just another in a litany of calorie counters without the newsfeed.

Please don't get rid of the newsfeed- MANY of us have been here for years, and have wonderful friendships that we come here for the support and the updates - I post holidays daily for people and talk about all the things we can celebrate and get the support we need to be successful. Taking away newsfeeds to only use community groups is going to clutter the groups, and create a mass exodus of members that ONLY come here to catch up with friends and share progress. If it was strictly for calorie counting, there are LOTS of ways to do that. C'mon MFP, don't ruin a good thing!

Save the Newsfeed!! It’s what’s kept me on MFP for 10 years. No reason to stay without it.

The newsfeed is the main reason I've continued to use this app. Removing this feature gives me zero incentive to continue.

Machka9 wrote: »

Lietchi wrote: »

Machka9 wrote: »

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/myfitnesspal-statistics/

MFP has 200 million users.

If 200,000 people used the News Feed, that's 0.1% of the total users.

If only 20 million people actively use MFP (10%), and 200,000 of them use the News Feed, that's 1% of the total active users.

When moderators etc. say that relatively few people use the News Feed, this is what they mean. To you, 200,000 people might seem like a lot, but when you run the math, it's not.

And quite frankly, I'd guess it's something more like 20,000 rather than 200,000.

Registered users doesn't tell the whole story though - how many of those are active users? That's a number I'd be more interested in and then see how many of those use the newsfeed (and how they measure 'using the newsfeed')

There has been protest here, but I think it's only a fraction of the newsfeed users - many of them probably aren't aware anything is changing. The only reason I know is because I'm active on the boards - I received no email informing me and the official post here didn't even specify newsfeed were disappearing, it only mentioned how this new 'activity feed' works.

We'll see if protest changes anything, but to say the new 'activity feed' in the boards (and groups) is a valid replacement is a joke honestly, just camouflaging for something they're taking away.

In my calculations above, I suggest that perhaps 10% are active users.

But let's say that 1% of 200,000,000 are active users = 2,000,000.
Now let's assume that 10% of 2,000,000 are News Feed users ... that's 200,000, and still a significant minority.

And again, looking at these numbers (and knowing the ghost town my News Feed has become in recent years), I'd guess no more than 20,000 (1%) of the possible 2,000,000 active users use News Feed.

If it is also old technology and not supported, why would they keep it?

If 500 people get miffed and leave, what kind of dent is that in active users? Especially if most of them are not premium users?

I get your point, but your numbers are guesses. I would like the actual numbers.

I’m seeing user IDS on these threads I’ve never heard of, and (looking at their post counts) who seldom post on the “public” areas of the boards.

It strikes me there’s a huge number of users who bypass the boards and go straight for a direct connection.

The boards were vibrant and wonderful til the last batch of major changes, when they just shriveled and died on the vine.

I hope to heavens you guys have a plan and aren’t just winging it again.

I actually love MFP. Yep. I love an app. Anyone who asks me what made me successful, or whom I overhear in the dressing room struggling, I pipe up and tell them the wonders of MFP. I’ve tried to pay it forward on the boards with new and struggling members, Ive served on at least one “committee”, did a user zoom conference -happily, I might add- when asked. For heavens sake, somewhere in this app is GIFs of me hanging my stomach out versus sucking it in, and pulling extra skin out to here versus tucking it in to Lycra. I can talk with women about menopause, periods, etc etc etc when bashful me would have issues discussing them IRL. I’ve read and participated in convos about weight loss and bowel movements. There is no faffing way I’d share any of that anywhere else.

You’ve got a good, basic, intuitive app (sans the many crappy user food entries). It doesn’t have to be beautiful, it doesn’t have to be trendy, but it does need to serve our needs both logging and having the person-to-person interaction.

I’m with @KickassAmazon76 I run screaming from the idea of “groups”. I’ve got a curated list of meaningful friends. I don’t want to join a group who has friends of friends of friends, and share what is sometimes personal stuff.

I’ve got friends here going through major health, life, job, depression and relationship issues that they share with friends. I am, frankly, honored that I’m in their trusted circle.

MFP friends are not just weight loss pals, they are something more. They are an extended network of friends who share the good bad and the ugly of life and weightloss- unlike other social media sites where every damn person is perfectly dressed, perfectly coiffed, and puckering up for the camera with their perfect SO or angelic, faultless child.

MFP is real, when other sites are not.

Maybe you didn’t intend to go that route, but you did, and you incidentally created strong communities.

Why not think about that, and channel and monetize that, if it’s a funds issue? Maybe a mid-range subscription fee. The $100+ is hard for a lot of folks to swallow, but nor should folks expect it to be absolutely free. Or a staggered subscription fee?

But by the same token, if you go that route, how about doing some curating of your own? Ads for athletic wear or equipment, instead of the AI or cartoon ads of shrinking people who “lost 25 pounds of fat in a week”.