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How About We Don't Delete Newsfeeds
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Why on earth 🌍 did you get rid of the news feed?!?!? That’s the only reason I actually have logged in here. You’re likely losing a whole lot of people and hence the revenue from any ads you post. It’s really not a smart move. Good luck with the whole thing then I guess lol.4
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JeanCricket wrote: »Save the Newsfeed!! It’s what’s kept me on MFP for 10 years. No reason to stay without it.
This exactly. I've already messaged my MFP friends that I am out - no reason to stick around without the news feed. It was the reason I logged in for many years. Sad day3 -
sunrise611 wrote: »@MargaretYakodaI would really like it if MFP could find some way to replicate what we had with the newsfeed. Some place that is easy to navigate to, and is, essentially, invite only (friends list)
No need to reinvent the wheel. They already had a good thing with the News Feed. No need to replicate it. Just put it back the way it was and leave it alone. But so many good people have already scattered in different directions over this loss.
The principle was good, the implementation was buggy and probably a symptom of the 'old and hard to maintain' code. The jumping back to the top of the feed was horribly annoying and made it hard to keep up with the feed. Automatic posts for exercise were hit and miss. Adding images on iOS was a pain (based on reading about it from others), and impossible on the website. There was a lot of room for improvement, even if on the whole it was a good thing.3 -
I thought my app was broken only to find out they have stopped newsfeeds. Why did they do it?1
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Therealobi1 wrote: »I thought my app was broken only to find out they have stopped newsfeeds. Why did they do it?
Read the first page of this thread.0 -
This is the situation:Hi y’all, Wanted to first acknowledge that saying good bye to any feature is hard, and I too am sad to see the Newsfeed ride off into the sunset. I do feel strongly that social interaction is important for a lot of folks on what can often be a lonely and difficult journey and having friends cheering you on can make a difference.
I’ll be transparent that the Newsfeed was one of our oldest features that had many flaws and was no longer sustainable to support. While it was not used by many we understand that it’s a real loss for those who used it.
While it is not perfect, due to some limitations like no friend or follow features in the Community, our team enabled the Community Activity Feed on profiles within the community as it was an existing feature available from our forum providers. Some of you may even remember seeing it briefly back in 2021 when we updated the Community.
The community profiles only have two options Public or Private, and the Private option makes the Activity Feed unviewable by others. The next best alternative to utilizing the Activity Feed would be to create a Private Group to invite your friends to and interact with them there.
I know these options don’t “replace” the Newsfeed by any means, but we hope they help give some members some options to interact with others outside of topic driven discussions.Hi @springlering62 Thanks for the tag and questions. We'll work on getting an informational post up. I'll do my best to answer some of your questions here.
First off the Friend's List is not impacted by Newsfeed going away. You can still add friends, as you do need to friend someone to send them a Private Message. From the Friends List you can still click on your friend's profile and find the Diary icon to access their Diary if diary sharing is enabled.
As I mentioned, I know some of the community options aren't super ideal as a Newsfeed stand in and I think there will be growing pains and learnings as y'all find what works best for you and your friend groups.
Private Messages are still very much an option for one on one communication, and Private groups are a way to communicate with a curated group of people. But yes, not everyone may want to join a group.
I'm reading all of your feedback and passing it along to the team. We'll continue to research and explore other options for the future that better support different social interaction needs.springlering62 wrote: »@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.
Hi @springlering62, Yes the feed will likely start going away for folks. However the Friend's list should not be impacted. If anyone is having issues accessing their friends list 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.
And the official announcement: https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/26953529858317-Retiring-the-Newsfeed-feature-by-the-end-of-June-2024
If all goes well, we'll get some new features.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10916185/losing-newsfeed-ok-but-what-about-food-diary-exercise-reports-etc0 -
Bring back the newsfeed. Guess you're hearing that loud and clear!1
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This is a very lonely place now. I know there's the community section. But it's not the same as the news feed. I'm going to try to find a place in there but it's just not the same. This situation reminds of fitbit getting rid of the challenges. I no longer have a fitbit.4
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The cynic in me says that what they will do it being back or implement a new newfeed, but only for premium members. Either way, I can say I am extremely unhappy. While I have not left, yet, as I try out other platforms I find that they are far better in many ways in terms of logging food and integration of my Fitbit data. It makes me realize how this platform needs vast improvement in those areas, and that it is really only the newfeed and the numerous recipes/meals I have entered here that are keeping me here.6
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Please write up what you find. Your compare and contrast of alternatives. ( to save me from having to do it 🤣)rileysowner wrote: »While I have not left, yet, as I try out other platforms.0 -
There is an answer to the loss of the newsfeed.......Vote with your feet. Move on to something else. I have. I said I would stay around until the newsfeed went and it has now gone for me so I will say 'Goodbye MFP. It was very good whilst it lasted, but now it is just like hundreds of other weight loss websites'.6
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so sad, newsfeed really gave us encouragement. We need it back.4
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The mad lads really did it. I hope it comes back one day.3
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rileysowner wrote: »The cynic in me says that what they will do it being back or implement a new newfeed, but only for premium members. Either way, I can say I am extremely unhappy. While I have not left, yet, as I try out other platforms I find that they are far better in many ways in terms of logging food and integration of my Fitbit data. It makes me realize how this platform needs vast improvement in those areas, and that it is really only the newfeed and the numerous recipes/meals I have entered here that are keeping me here.
You could potentially find that on a better and more curated food database, you would need fewer custom entries. I like the forums, but haven't tracked on MFP for years, even before I stopped calorie counting. The other platform is much more straightforward and included a lot more "current" types of entries like Factor meals and Hello Fresh recipes. Not being crowdsourced, I felt the information was a lot more reliable which made entering my own stuff tremendously faster and easier once I didn't have to doublecheck or just hand enter every ingredient. I guess what I'm saying is that the sunk cost here might not be as high as you imagine.1 -
Here, here!chris_in_cal wrote: »Please write up what you find. Your compare and contrast of alternatives. ( to save me from having to do it 🤣)rileysowner wrote: »..as I try out other platforms I find that they are far better in many ways in terms of logging food and integration of my Fitbit data...
Yes please - particularly interested in ones that integrate well with your Fitbit!0 -
You could potentially find that on a better and more curated food database, you would need fewer custom entries. I like the forums, but haven't tracked on MFP for years, even before I stopped calorie counting. The other platform is much more straightforward and included a lot more "current" types of entries like Factor meals and Hello Fresh recipes. Not being crowdsourced, I felt the information was a lot more reliable which made entering my own stuff tremendously faster and easier once I didn't have to doublecheck or just hand enter every ingredient. I guess what I'm saying is that the sunk cost here might not be as high as you imagine.
What app is this please?1 -
BCLadybug888 wrote: »
Here, here!chris_in_cal wrote: »Please write up what you find. Your compare and contrast of alternatives. ( to save me from having to do it 🤣)rileysowner wrote: »..as I try out other platforms I find that they are far better in many ways in terms of logging food and integration of my Fitbit data...
Yes please - particularly interested in ones that integrate well with your Fitbit!
Cronometer integrates Fitbit data much more fully than MFP. I don't see anything like the newsfeed for interaction, so I have not explored it much more that logging a bit. The logging there is different than here, but works well enough, and I am guessing once I got used to the interface, I would find it easier.
MyNetDiary seems to have the ability to put together a friend list, but I would need to pay to directly use my Fitbit, however, since I linked my Fitbit to GoogleFit, I can import information through it. I only started playing with it yesterday, so I am still exploring.
LoseIt I looked at, but I haven't played with it much, and have no idea on Fitbit integration or friends interactions.1 -
It would be wonderful if this site had a way to privately interact with a selected friend list. Oh, we had that and you took it away because no one used it, although the abundance of posts from people wondering where it disappeared to, seem to indicate you are extremely wrong.2
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BCLadybug888 wrote: »You could potentially find that on a better and more curated food database, you would need fewer custom entries. I like the forums, but haven't tracked on MFP for years, even before I stopped calorie counting. The other platform is much more straightforward and included a lot more "current" types of entries like Factor meals and Hello Fresh recipes. Not being crowdsourced, I felt the information was a lot more reliable which made entering my own stuff tremendously faster and easier once I didn't have to doublecheck or just hand enter every ingredient. I guess what I'm saying is that the sunk cost here might not be as high as you imagine.
What app is this please?
I tracked on Nutrionix. But be warned, it is just a tracker. No ads, no blogs, no newsfeed, no forums, no social aspect whatsoever. But it has voice logging and a barcode scanner. I haven’t tracked in quite a while, so no idea how well those work, but I’ve found it to be a handy little app when I need it.0 -
I am not sure why the newsfeed could not be updated instead of abandoned, but with the privacy feature, it served a real need that is not served now... Hope it will be recognized and implemented in a workable way soon.4
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This is so messed up - I have been using the newsfeed to go back to daily feelings and goals to keep me motivated - then it's just GONE?! No archive of it to access? This is such bad form. I have been using MFP since 2011 = I picked up again this year with daily checking in and affirmations an have hit a new goal of dropping 55 lbs - I went in to update and basically all my input is just GONE?! not the way wanted to celebrate my 1/2 yr goal... very disappointed and hope the data isn't just lost to the internet graveyard of bits...
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BCLadybug888 wrote: »You could potentially find that on a better and more curated food database, you would need fewer custom entries. I like the forums, but haven't tracked on MFP for years, even before I stopped calorie counting. The other platform is much more straightforward and included a lot more "current" types of entries like Factor meals and Hello Fresh recipes. Not being crowdsourced, I felt the information was a lot more reliable which made entering my own stuff tremendously faster and easier once I didn't have to doublecheck or just hand enter every ingredient. I guess what I'm saying is that the sunk cost here might not be as high as you imagine.
What app is this please?
The first wave of people leaving chose loseit, and I tried that for a while but ulitimately they have some of the same issues as mfp; its a really old app so implenting pretty standard features like pictures isn't going to happen without pain. In general I found it harder to navigate and clunky.
Mynetdiary has been the best free alternative I've tried with a good Interface and robust social features. I've made a mfp migrant group there as well.
https://www.mynetdiary.com/community/groups/65401
And heres a friend link from me
https://www.mynetdiary.com/community/friendinvitations/144859?token=173e9b2e-b311-413e-a23d-c5ef3329e88d1 -
"Little used" is a politicians cop out Betty. Respectfully, Members are leaving in droves. Update the tech then. Other apps have it. in 12 years I have used community and blogs 8 times. I check my newsfeed with friends multiple times during the day. An absolute lazy, bonehead decision. Restore it. You customer base has spoken.4
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sunrise611 wrote: »Here's an off the wall question. Is it wrong to still send out friend requests?
What's the point? You can't follow them and root for them the same way and they can't do that for you. The News Feed is incomparable and will never be replaced no matter how much they try to enhance the ugly Activity Feed.
So what you're saying is I can still do it! Nice!!2 -
rileysowner wrote: »BCLadybug888 wrote: »
Here, here!chris_in_cal wrote: »Please write up what you find. Your compare and contrast of alternatives. ( to save me from having to do it 🤣)rileysowner wrote: »..as I try out other platforms I find that they are far better in many ways in terms of logging food and integration of my Fitbit data...
Yes please - particularly interested in ones that integrate well with your Fitbit!
Cronometer integrates Fitbit data much more fully than MFP. I don't see anything like the newsfeed for interaction, so I have not explored it much more that logging a bit. The logging there is different than here, but works well enough, and I am guessing once I got used to the interface, I would find it easier.
MyNetDiary seems to have the ability to put together a friend list, but I would need to pay to directly use my Fitbit, however, since I linked my Fitbit to GoogleFit, I can import information through it. I only started playing with it yesterday, so I am still exploring.
LoseIt I looked at, but I haven't played with it much, and have no idea on Fitbit integration or friends interactions.
Cronometer is food logging only
MyNetDiary has old community posts from April 2023 showing the last entry, so I guess it's not used by too many.
Lose it, a bit different, but I will get used to it.
Still searching...because I need interaction with 'friends' not just a forum.3 -
I found my new home at FATSecret. I love it. There is even a MFP refugee, which made me laugh. Hope to see some of you there.2
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Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! When I looked up one of them, an article comparing calorie counter apps came up, so thought I would share:
https://appetiser.com.au/blog/best-calorie-counter-app/1 -
I used the newsfeed every day and I really really miss it. I didn't use it to share with friends but I did use it to record my private thoughts on my progress or lack of some days. I recorded the resons why I didn't lose weight on a particular day to help me understand my ups and downs. I was just starting to look for 1 or 2 like-minded people to be friends with and now it's gone. Please reconsider, MFP! It really is what set this app apart.3
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