How About We Don't Delete Newsfeeds

Spaff_luceat_lux_vestra_BSB wrote: »

Hey All...please go rate the mfp app...give it a 1 and comment. If enough people do it they will see how unhappy we are.

I visited the Play Store again today. It still lists the app as 4.2 stars overall, but if you look at the reviews from the last couple of months, they are atrocious. I think the 2 million old reviews have created quite a buffer for the overall rating, but h-o-l-y-c-o-w. People are ticked about all the features being taken away from the free version (bar code scanning, calorie goal adjustment), and I even saw a couple mentions about the newsfeed! It may not look like it yet on the outside, but we are making an impact!

I agree - Keep speaking up!

I’ve said for years that, yeah, it’s a free site, but no one eats or pays housenotes by working for a free site.

But people are wholly invested in “free”. Witness the outrage when scanning became part of a paid subscription.

OTOH, conversion rates are low because the subscription fee is so high, and the benefits for buying in are nominal. No ads. Yay! A scanning tool that’s reliable maybe 30% of the time (I know, crowdsourced entries yada yada). I can’t even think of any other benefits. Oh, you can download data to keep or share with medical personnel or trainers, , but the format it downloads in is utterly useless.

At least they don’t make you listen to 90 seconds of ridiculous, offensive ads like a photo editing app I paid for years ago, but seldom use unless in the utmost need.

I fully expect MFP to either go all subscription, or fade into the sunset.

I was a huge Ebay user and seller back in the day. They ignored their users, cue outrage, and the site is nothing to what it used to be. I had 10,000+ transactions there- and haven’t visited the site in years, they made me so angry. Feeling very Deja vu with MFP.

Anyway, I checked my friends count this morning. I keep it weeded out, and just did so a couple weeks ago, so my friends were all active users. My friends list has shrunk by a fraction under 10%. Others are preparing to leave by sharing various social media outlets where they can be found.

There’s a serious amount of resistance to groups, and people are either so utterly confused by the activity feed, or have found out with their first visit to it how cumbersome it is to use that they’re fleeing for (mostly) IG. They’re also angry enough that they’re moving to other, ironically and presumably paid calorie counting platforms.

This whole mess just bespeaks poor planning, and lack of interest in how users use the site.

If I’d spent a bazillion dollars to buy an app/website, you can damn well bet I’d have an account there and be poking around and engaging, and require several corporate office employees to do same.

@Betty I’m getting reports from friends (via groups) that their feed is now gone and they can no longer access their friends list to send private messages.


We were assured the friends list would remain for this purpose. What’s the deal? Should we be writing down names of friends?

Heads up for yall who want to stay in touch with friends, in case this is not resolved.

What a bunch of tone dead people run this world. You make the world a worse place

I kind of wish I didn't know how brilliant MFP used to be.

I guess everything dies. RIP MFP. Without the newsfeed I see no point in your existence - other apps exist that are way less buggy.

At least you could have fixed the bugs and broken bits rather than taking away an integral feature that actually worked.

So many of my friends have already left and are now at IG which doesn't thrill me to be honest. A few mentioned Lose It so that's where I'm going for now. Manipulating the reviews is total BS if that's what they're doing and tells us exactly everything we need to know about MFP unfortunately.

I thought about sticking around for the contact list of friends and possibly logging food and exercise but that seems pointless now. Messaging all my friends now with my phone (a select few), email and Lose It info and when the newsfeed folds I'll be gone..............if not before.