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How About We Don't Delete Newsfeeds
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I miss the MFP of the past. [/quote]
Right, they should not have bought this if they are unable to maintain and upgrade it properly. [/quote]
I’m sorry to say this but they bought it because they saw a chance to make money. They don’t care about the users (no profit making company does - they care about ROI for shareholders). They can make money by increasing income or reducing expenditure. The newsfeed - and any other changes coming - are the reduction in expenditure portion.
It isn’t going to return, I suspect the site will be simplified / show increasing lack of investment until they’ve milked it. Then they’ll either sell it off at a reduced rate having profited from increased fees and decreased expenditure or break it up and sell the code and mailing lists. If they haven’t already.
Is this crap practice? Yes. Is this what all big business does? Also yes. Is this how banks, pension and investment funds make money? Yes.3 -
claireychn074 wrote: »
I’m sorry to say this but they bought it because they saw a chance to make money. They don’t care about the users (no profit making company does - they care about ROI for shareholders). They can make money by increasing income or reducing expenditure. The newsfeed - and any other changes coming - are the reduction in expenditure portion.
It isn’t going to return, I suspect the site will be simplified / show increasing lack of investment until they’ve milked it. Then they’ll either sell it off at a reduced rate having profited from increased fees and decreased expenditure or break it up and sell the code and mailing lists. If they haven’t already.
Is this crap practice? Yes. Is this what all big business does? Also yes. Is this how banks, pension and investment funds make money? Yes.
The thing is: they are still making developments on the app, the past months I've seen several changes (integrating sleep, logging progress on the dashboard...), so they are still spending money on it, but they've decided the newsfeed specifically isn't worth investing in.7 -
Please save MFP3
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I know, and it’s sad for those who really used it and benefited. But MFP just doesn’t care - presumably they have decided it’s not worth the investment.claireychn074 wrote: »
I’m sorry to say this but they bought it because they saw a chance to make money. They don’t care about the users (no profit making company does - they care about ROI for shareholders). They can make money by increasing income or reducing expenditure. The newsfeed - and any other changes coming - are the reduction in expenditure portion.
It isn’t going to return, I suspect the site will be simplified / show increasing lack of investment until they’ve milked it. Then they’ll either sell it off at a reduced rate having profited from increased fees and decreased expenditure or break it up and sell the code and mailing lists. If they haven’t already.
Is this crap practice? Yes. Is this what all big business does? Also yes. Is this how banks, pension and investment funds make money? Yes.
The thing is: they are still making developments on the app, the past months I've seen several changes (integrating sleep, logging progress on the dashboard...), so they are still spending money on it, but they've decided the newsfeed specifically isn't worth investing in.
Now, if someone on these forums can come up with a way to make the newsfeed pay for MFP - pretty sure they’d sit up and listen then!
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I am saddened. The newsfeed was what attracted me to MFP. I am rather new, have 'only' lost 15 lbs. I am fighting my diabetes diagnosis (type 2) and so far it looks like I am succeeding. My morning glucose is now already in the normal range.
The newsfeed was my own little space here. I could fill them with friends to my liking (and vice versa) participate or take time off after we lost our beloved dog. My friends were there. Some motivated me and inspired me, others just started and our baby steps brought us together.
I suppose there is no money to be made with the newsfeed. Forcing everybody to participate on a discussion board will not be the same -not even close.
People like me will stay away and participate only once in a while. In the end, I fear there will be lots of advertisements. The more readers, the higher you can sell the ad space. Isn't that how it works?
Or will the newsfeed be a part of the premium membership now?
To me and many others, it won't matter. We might fall off the wagon and just stay off, or we will succeed quietly alone -somewhere.
I feel sorry for all the members who have built friendships with a lot of people during the year. Many are role models and I suspect they need it to stay focused. Maybe I start a blog somewhere or I participate on Instagram? Not sure, but I need interaction with others. It keeps me going.
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Fwiwclaireychn074 wrote: »
I know, and it’s sad for those who really used it and benefited. But MFP just doesn’t care - presumably they have decided it’s not worth the investment.claireychn074 wrote: »
I’m sorry to say this but they bought it because they saw a chance to make money. They don’t care about the users (no profit making company does - they care about ROI for shareholders). They can make money by increasing income or reducing expenditure. The newsfeed - and any other changes coming - are the reduction in expenditure portion.
It isn’t going to return, I suspect the site will be simplified / show increasing lack of investment until they’ve milked it. Then they’ll either sell it off at a reduced rate having profited from increased fees and decreased expenditure or break it up and sell the code and mailing lists. If they haven’t already.
Is this crap practice? Yes. Is this what all big business does? Also yes. Is this how banks, pension and investment funds make money? Yes.
The thing is: they are still making developments on the app, the past months I've seen several changes (integrating sleep, logging progress on the dashboard...), so they are still spending money on it, but they've decided the newsfeed specifically isn't worth investing in.
Now, if someone on these forums can come up with a way to make the newsfeed pay for MFP - pretty sure they’d sit up and listen then!
FWIW... I would pay $10-15 a year for current free functionality IF it meant that the newsfeed was bug fixed and the meals didn't double or triple enter. I don't need all the bells and whistles... But I DO want the meal tracker and the newsfeed. Propose a tier membership schedule...
Free is simple calorie counter and community access. Gold is newseed and ability to save and create meals and recipes. Platinum is all the goodies of premium.6 -
Honestly the real reason I used premium was to get rid of all the ads on the newsfeed. LOL. With no newsfeed I guess the only thing I pay for is the ability to turn exercise cals off or on for my diary and the bar code scanning on my phone? I do miss the ability to private blog and the ability to actually use punctuation in private msgs or the ability to send or receive a private msg with a friend request. I certainly will miss the newsfeed but the change is inevitable and most likely nothing we say or protest about will make a difference to a done decision (altho recently at work I kept a 'tantrum of sorts' going on something until I did get my way which was pretty unusual) 🤷♀️🤣😳9
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So, how is the Activity Feed supposed to work?
I thought, from reading the article in News & Announcements, that the Activity Feed would show up posts from your friends (it shows in the example that "Username and 109 other users were promoted to Premium).
But, no friend posts are showing up in my Activity Feed, and in turn, my friends can't see the post I made in their Activity Feed, either.
So, what's the deal? How is it supposed to actually work? Just a place for you to talk to yourself, publicly, and folks can comment, if they feel moved to visit your Profile Page, and read your Activity Feed?9 -
RIP MFP.. I shall miss you. I have been here since February 26, 2011, and am coming up on my 5,000th day of logging in. I love the newsfeed feature, and usually check in on the site before even logging on to Facebook or any other social media site.
My friends here have gotten me thru some really tough times, most recently a 63 day hospital stay with 2 ICU visits, being intubated, having a trach and feeding tube, and diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis. Most mornings, I don't have the energy to get out of bed, but I always check in here. Seeing what everyone on my friend list is up to has helped me get thru some of my darkest hours, and lately, most of them are not too bright.
Taking the newsfeed away is a terrible plan, and one that should be reconsidered before MFP is just another used to be place for people to connect, like MySpace. I predict in a year, people will be saying, "MFP, I used to use that site. Whatever happened to it?" 😔10 -
clarity8796 wrote: »
(And no, I don't work for MFP. But do have education and experience in cost accounting.)
You also clearly have an agenda. You’ve stated multiple times in lengthy posts that you do not use the newsfeed and that no one uses it.
Yet you feel compelled to make post after post telling people why they shouldn’t care about something that they do care about and that THEY use. We don’t need you to explain to us that businesses exist to make money.
Um I think you’ll find it was me that specifically stated that. So go ahead and have a go at me if it makes you happy! I’m ducking out now.1 -
**S A V E O U R N E W S F E E D** REPOST Tomorrow Monday, May 27 we will boycott by not logging into the site. If enough people don’t log in, that may show MFP what it would look like once the newsfeed is gone. Post this on your feed and ask all your friends to post this too. To protest MFP removing the newsfeed. **S A V E O U R N E W S F E E D**4
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Joining the boycott tomorrow as well, as are most of my friends, many of whom have logging streaks in the thousands they are willing to forfeit in hopes of saving the newsfeed. I had to rejoin last week under a new name so that's not my case so "respect" to those of you who are giving that streak up for one day of not logging to make a point! As I've been reading the newsfeed the last couple of days it seems quieter already and so I'm wondering if some members have already departed. I don't have a large friend list (by design) but some of my friends do, and I've noticed very few comments in general on their posts and mine as well. Sad days ahead I fear...............
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Joining the boycott as are most of my friends who are still here! It seems some have already jumped ship...............5
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I'm not liking the community feel AT ALL so far. There's too much drama, no easy way to navigate it on the app and I can't find things I've posted on previously, then when I do I have to scroll through all the new comments. This is more of a pain in the *kitten*! Just let us keep our newsfeeds!6
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I’ve been with MFP for years and the Newsfeed is the only thing that keeps me here. There are way better apps for fitness and diet tracking. This app has been a glitchy mess since this group bought it. Why on earth would I want to share all of my info with a totally public group? There are people who join MFP for reasons that have nothing to do with health and fitness. I weed those people out of my friends’ list. If you take away my ability to do that, MFP will no longer be a good place to be. No Newsfeed = No App5
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Pennyandlu wrote: »Joining the boycott tomorrow as well, as are most of my friends, many of whom have logging streaks in the thousands they are willing to forfeit in hopes of saving the newsfeed. I had to rejoin last week under a new name so that's not my case so "respect" to those of you who are giving that streak up for one day of not logging to make a point! As I've been reading the newsfeed the last couple of days it seems quieter already and so I'm wondering if some members have already departed. I don't have a large friend list (by design) but some of my friends do, and I've noticed very few comments in general on their posts and mine as well. Sad days ahead I fear...............
Unfortunately some friends have already lost access to the newsfeed with the Memorial day long weekend it is very quiet3 -
Hey All
Francisco Partners is on LinkedIn...search them on there and message them.3 -
I feel so sorry for people actually paying for this app, because it has so many bugs. Bugs MFP didn't have when i started here in 2012.
MFP lost it's way over the years, and now...taking away one of the few things people still lke about this app.
The Newsfeed.
Keeping track with your friends on your friendslist, but nooooo
Now they want you to post on forum, make tons of different groups there.
Shift the problem MFP has to it's users, instead of fixing things.
Yes it's still buggy, but why not try effort in fixing it. It used to work in the past...
The forums stillhardly work on my phone, a issue i have adressed to MFP multiple times, but never got a proper response off.
If they really go forward with this, i will lose friends on here, because it's the only place i keep contact with some. With some i use IG as well, but only a few really close ones and the ones who have IG.
I only have 43 friends on my list, but if newsfeed disappears, that will be probably 10-15 who i will still be contacting with, because i am not going to the forums each and everytime to keep track with everyone.
MFP, you should be better!7 -
The camaraderie of the personal newsfeed has kept many, including myself - coming back for years. Without it.. how is it different than other fitness apps?
It will be interesting to see — in the light of so many user requests to keep the feature if the developers and corporate side see a value in it for the user experience.
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Agree wholeheartedly with @Spaff_luceat_lux_vestra_BSB and others - my fitfam on the personal newsfeed is what has kept me coming back for over 10 years.
I can track, scan, chat in forums and actually get more features in other apps… what has been my favorite feature is the newsfeed and personal and private connection through this feature.
Hope MFP keeps the newsfeed and invests in their platform. I’ve spent years paying for this service only to have the service and experience continually decline.5
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