Unfriending everyone
chris_in_cal
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I can set my food diary to "only visible to friends"
Is there currently any other MFP function or use of "Friends?"
Unfriending everyone and setting my diary to something else (all or private) does not have any impact, correct?
Now MFP friends doesn't have any meaning, or do anything, except possibly a filter for view food diaries. Do I have this right.
What other function does the MFP friend feature have?
Is there currently any other MFP function or use of "Friends?"
Unfriending everyone and setting my diary to something else (all or private) does not have any impact, correct?
Now MFP friends doesn't have any meaning, or do anything, except possibly a filter for view food diaries. Do I have this right.
What other function does the MFP friend feature have?
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I can't see any benefit to the friends feature, now that the feed is gone. Seems rather useless to add friends if you can't see their progress or updates. Not unless you use it as a list of people to go and separately stalk on the forums, as there appears to be no connection between the Friends and Community sections.5
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Sending DMs is probably all that’s left0
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I deleted all of my friends except one. I was hoping to stay in touch with her but sadly she's gone now.
I was hoping she'd join the 200 plus thread, but it never happened.
That thread is the closest thing to an activity feed for me. I have it bookmarked.1 -
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chris_in_cal wrote: »
I've often heard that DMs don't arrive at their destination if the two people aren't friends.0 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »
I've often heard that DMs don't arrive at their destination if the two people aren't friends.
Let's experiment. I'll send you a DM, we aren't "MFP Friends" report back in tomorrow whether you did or did not get a message from me. I'll send it now (6/20/2024)0 -
Message received, and reply sent.0
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Message received, and reply sent.
Got it. So DMs aren't in play here. Being an "MFP Friends" means:- A tool to filter who views your "food diary"
What else?
If there is nothing else that means all users who set their food diary to "Private" or "All" for all intents and purposes MFP friends are without any meaning or function.1 -
Visibility of our profiles (MFP profiles, not the activity feed in the community boards) is the only thing I can think of: our profiles also have several possible privacy settings.
But yeah, not much use in MFP friends left since the demise of the newsfeed.3 -
True. So that's two things.Visibility of our profiles (MFP profiles, not the activity feed in the community boards) is the only thing I can think of: our profiles also have several possible privacy settings.
"Friends" can be a filter to limit who sees a user's profile or food diary sharing.
Anything else? Anyone?
If keeping the whole MFP friends part of their company does almost nothing, they might (or should) remove that too.
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Did you send the DM from the mfp profile or from the activity feed? I see “messages” in those 2 places and think they’re separate but I haven’t used the activity feed one yet to know how it works0
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I was only able to send you one from my profile, and even though we’re not friends, it did let me type in your username. That may have been a change from years ago (I’m old here) when I thought you had to be friends to send messages.chris_in_cal wrote: »Send me one from each of the two...I'll report back if I get them.
And when I look at the messages bucket in the activity feed/here, there is no option to send a message, it just says that I have none. Oh well.
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You can go to their individual profiles and still like/comment, but that's only feasible if you keep friends list very small.0
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You can go to their individual profiles and still like/comment
I am not seeing that. Using the Android App, I click on the "friends" button and I see the list of my "friends"
I click on one of my "friends" and there are two options: view their diary, or send them a direct message. There is no commenting or liking.
The most important clarification is that I can tap on your profile name, and I get the same two choices. Being "Friends" or not, does the same thing.
Describe where you are seeing this please.
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chris_in_cal wrote: »You can go to their individual profiles and still like/comment
I am not seeing that. Using the Android App, I click on the "friends" button and I see the list of my "friends"
I click on one of my "friends" and there are two options: view their diary, or send them a direct message. There is no commenting or liking.
The most important clarification is that I can tap on your profile name, and I get the same two choices. Being "Friends" or not, does the same thing.
Describe where you are seeing this please.
In the community boards themselves, the (in)famous activity feeds. You either need to find the friends in question via one of their posts in the boards and then tap on their username and visit their community profile/activity feed, or look them up using the search function (easiest would be to bookmark all your friends community profiles/activity feeds, using a browser)0 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »You can go to their individual profiles and still like/comment
I am not seeing that. Using the Android App, I click on the "friends" button and I see the list of my "friends"
I click on one of my "friends" and there are two options: view their diary, or send them a direct message. There is no commenting or liking.
The most important clarification is that I can tap on your profile name, and I get the same two choices. Being "Friends" or not, does the same thing.
Describe where you are seeing this please.
I go to "friends" - there I see a list of friends. I tap on a friend's Pic and it takes me to their page. I can either DM them or scroll down and see what the did today (ex - person walked 30 min) and I can like it or comment on it. I'm on an android phone.0 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »You can go to their individual profiles and still like/comment
I am not seeing that. Using the Android App, I click on the "friends" button and I see the list of my "friends"
I click on one of my "friends" and there are two options: view their diary, or send them a direct message. There is no commenting or liking.
The most important clarification is that I can tap on your profile name, and I get the same two choices. Being "Friends" or not, does the same thing.
Describe where you are seeing this please.
I go to "friends" - there I see a list of friends. I tap on a friend's Pic and it takes me to their page. I can either DM them or scroll down and see what the did today (ex - person walked 30 min) and I can like it or comment on it. I'm on an android phone.
This is on MFP itself, not in the Community section? For me, in the app, that only shows the person's profile picture with the option to send a DM or look at their diary.
In the browser version, I can see their profile too, but not a trace of their exercise, no comments etc.
I'm wondering if you're simply using a version that hasn't been updated yet and therefore still shows the newsfeed?1 -
I go to "friends" - there I see a list of friends. I tap on a friend's Pic and it takes me to their page. I can either DM them or scroll down and see what the did today (ex - person walked 30 min) and I can like it or comment on it. I'm on an android phone.
This no longer exists for me and many of us. I believe MFP announced it should all be gone by the end of June. Perhaps you should do a lot of "likes" while you can.1 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »
I go to "friends" - there I see a list of friends. I tap on a friend's Pic and it takes me to their page. I can either DM them or scroll down and see what the did today (ex - person walked 30 min) and I can like it or comment on it. I'm on an android phone.
This no longer exists for me and many of us. I believe MFP announced it should all be gone by the end of June. Perhaps you should do a lot of "likes" while you can.
Mine just updated today and I can no longer do what I described previously, so I guess there's no point to friends anymore. I'm bummed because I've been communicating with some of these folks for years.0 -
This change has had a big impact on some members. A lot are mourning something they valued.there's no point to friends anymore.
Working as a filter, an "MFP friend" can still be used to determine who can view a food diary and who can view a profile.
Though even if I set it to only allow my group of "MFP Friends" to view, there is no interaction. If an "MFP Friend" views your profile and cannot like, share, or comment, did it really even happen?
(my take on: If a tree falls in the forest with nobody there, did it make a sound.)
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The purpose of having "pals" on MyFitnessPal no longer exists, except as a convenient way to find specific people who you want to communicate with via private message.1
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KareninCanada wrote: »except as a convenient way to find specific people who you want to communicate with via private message.
I think that's not accurate, you can communicate with any member via private message, not only "MFP friends"
"Friends" now serve almost no purpose. Limiting food diary views is about it.
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On IOS phone app here. If I go to my friends list, I cannot click on this photo to get to their profile page. That would have been a wonderful integration to click and comment on an activity feed.
Alas… I get this : I can view a diary or send a DM.
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That's the exact same limitation that's happening on the Android App too.SafariGalNYC wrote: »On IOS phone app here.
And to get into the weeds:- "DM button" Yes, but anyone can DM anyone, this isn't a "MFP friend" thing
- "View Diary" if your "MFP Friend" has their diary set to private, or public, than it is the same thing "MFP friend" or not. if they have it set to 'viewable by friends" then your button means something
In summary clicking on your friend's avatar brings up two buttons. One 'DM' doesn't mean anything, and the other 'diary' 2/3rds doesn't mean anything.
Now basically "MFP Friends" doesn't mean anything...why keep "MFP Friends" on the platform? They might save even more software issues if they just eliminate the whole paradigm of having "friends."
The "MF App" ---no pals needed.1 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »
That's the exact same limitation that's happening on the Android App too.SafariGalNYC wrote: »On IOS phone app here.
And to get into the weeds:- "DM button" Yes, but anyone can DM anyone, this isn't a "MFP friend" thing
- "View Diary" if your "MFP Friend" has their diary set to private, or public, than it is the same thing "MFP friend" or not. if they have it set to 'viewable by friends" then your button means something
In summary clicking on your friend's avatar brings up two buttons. One 'DM' doesn't mean anything, and the other 'diary' 2/3rds doesn't mean anything.
Now basically "MFP Friends" doesn't mean anything...why keep "MFP Friends" on the platform? They might save even more software issues if they just eliminate the whole paradigm of having "friends."
The "MF App" ---no pals needed.
Agree and I always want to ask the posters who say “friend me!, I need accountability and motivation” — how are they doing this? Constant DMs?0 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »
Reassessment time: apparently being AND having been friends lets DMs go through (as well as both sides trying to send DMs). I tested with someone else (never been friends) and it didn't go through.0 -
chris_in_cal wrote: »KareninCanada wrote: »except as a convenient way to find specific people who you want to communicate with via private message.
I think that's not accurate, you can communicate with any member via private message, not only "MFP friends"
"Friends" now serve almost no purpose. Limiting food diary views is about it.
Yes, you can, but if you want to stay in touch via with specific friends via messaging, then the friends list makes that convenient. That's about the only purpose of the friends list now. That and granting those people access to view your diary.
It would be an improvement if the friend list from the MFP site carried over to the MFP community, and you could access their community profiles directly from your friend list. Them you could at least see and comment on their community activity feed. You can get there by tapping on their name from within the community, but it's in no way related to whether you are MFP friends.1 -
This! 100%, it is wildly dysfunctional to have such disharmony between the two.KareninCanada wrote: »It would be an improvement if the friend list from the MFP site carried over to the MFP community, and you could access their community profiles directly from your friend list.3
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