A few weeks back, we archived a lot of older MyPlate data temporarily, in an attempt to shrink the size of our database so that The Daily Plate on LIVESTRONG would load faster.
We planned to un-archive the data that week.
Unfortunately, as some of you know first-hand, the un-archiving process has gone slower than planned. We've set and missed a couple goals for getting older MyPlate data restored, and we apologize sincerely for that frustration. Please know that our developers continue to strategize on how we can best restore that MyPlate data, and no information has been lost. We've been unarchiving member data each night, and we're still investigating faster ways to get this data back for you.
Gold members have been prioritized to the top of the pending queue for un-archiving.
We know this hasn't gone as well as it could have. Our top priorities are continuing access to your older data, and keeping the site snappy. We will work to resolve this issue as quickly as we can, and as always, we appreciate your support!
Last night, our unstoppable development team rolled out a series of fixes and upgrades to the site. As part of these fixes, I have it on good authority that remaining archived MyPlate data should be restored over the next day or so. Stay tuned!
Here are other issues the team addressed:
1. Fix for the "Calorie Breakdown" chart
2. Fix for a bug where The Daily Plate tried to recalculate manually set calorie goals
3. Fix for properly calculating calories burned for members who were seeing 0 calories for each exercise
5. Fix various issues with quotation marks and apostrophes, affecting search, display, and editing
6. Added ability to delete messages from your outbox (by hugely popular request!)
7. Fix for MyPlate CSV exports
8. Fix for Topic and Dare guides
9. Various optimizations to search
10. Improved page load times
Whew — that's a mouthful! As always, we welcome and appreciate your feedback. Let us know your thoughts!
Our unstoppable, incomparable development team rolled out a series of upgrades and enhancements to the site last night. Here's a quick overview:
1. Of course, the new
LIVESTRONG Loops feature is
amazing. Map out your walking, running, and biking routes, and we'll calculate the distance, the calories burned, and more. And we've already loaded the system with 20,000 great routes all around the world for you to explore.
2. Signatures for Gold members should be working better now when updated.
3. An issue with tracking weight in Kilograms has been corrected.
4. Our newly revamped
Customer Support tool will help members get answers to their questions faster than ever.
5. The "Calories Over Time" chart wasn't displaying properly for members whose accounts were more than one year old. Now, the "net calories" line is again being drawn correctly.
6. An issue with adding foods to our database from brands not yet in our system has (finally!) been resolved.
7. "What I Do Regularly" wasn't working properly on MyPlate for some members. It should be now!
8. Various fixes to the Excel/CSV exports on the MyPlate page are now live.
9. Assorted issues with calorie calculation on certain sub-screens of MyPlate have been addressed.
10. The BMI chart works a bit better now.
Lots more to come — stay tuned! And yes, we're still working on restoring old, archived MyPlate data, but that should come soon.
We're thrilled to launch our brand new LIVESTRONG Blog! We want to make our LIVESTRONG Blog to make it a bit more personal. The LIVESTRONG.COM team is staffed by employees who are passionate about our message of taking charge in our own lives, improving ourselves, and hopefully inspiring others to make the same choice.
Our new blog will be filled with posts from a variety of our team members. We all work on different elements of LIVESTRONG.COM, as different as the personal goals we’re each working toward. But, we share the belief that we can improve ourselves, that our own site can help us, and that our members might be interested in hearing our stories. More on that below.
We also released a slew of brand new features:
We fixed your Dares page so that you can once again see just your own updates. We tweaked some navigational elements around the site. And we fixed a few frustrating bugs, like the inability to leave groups in certain situations.
With that out of the way, let me tell you more about this new blog!
We’ll continue blogging about site news, of course, too. That’s my job actually — I’m Lex Friedman, our Director of Community. On the new blog, though, I’ll post more than our latest sitewide announcements. I’ll also share the story of Lex Getting Healthy. I’m the father of two beautiful girls, and I work from my home office in New Jersey. I spend about 10 hours a day sitting in a desk chair working at a computer, and my belly shows it. I’d like to shed about 20 pounds through a combination of tracking my food intake with The Daily Plate and sneaking exercise when I can find it with my Wii Fit, and, of course chasing my girls around outside during the summer.
Joe Perez, who heads up product, wants to get bigger, faster, and stronger. His blog, Curious Joe, will chronicle his workouts with Lance’s trainers in Santa Monica, Calif., as he attempts to learn more about exercising and pushing his own limits. Joe is working with Inflict Training, LIVESTRONG.COM's new partners and fitness Experts. Together, we will launch a new feature for everyone, where you can create your own workout, matched to the intensity level you prefer. Like Joe, you can start at a lower level, and progressively advance to increasingly intense workouts. You’ll learn more about Inflict in the days ahead, and you’ll get to watch as Joe “eats the company dog food” and tries the workout app for you first, publicly, on his blog.
MOTS and MITS, or Jodi Cararas and Krisserin Canary, who run the content division of LIVESTRONG, try to stay abreast on the latest news surrounding health, lifestyle and fitness. It is an important part of how they decide on what articles and videos are featured on our site. And they know it is important to you, too. In their blog, the duo will discuss timely news and relevant topics and how it impacts their lives and yours, in hopes of making this part of LIVESTRONG.COM’s daily discussion.
And Susy Sedano, our Community Manager, will write Susy Sez, featuring healthy recipes and dieting tips she encounters in her own life. Susy is also a slow-cooker aficionado, and she’ll share some of her ideas for healthy Crockpot cooking, as well. Our new, built-from-the-ground-up recipe builder will be launching in the near future, and Susy Sez will tie in nicely.
We’re very excited about this new direction for the blog, and the new features that we have to roll out in the weeks and months ahead. As always, we thank you for your support, and can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
You probably already know about our iPhone app and our Blackberry app to track foods using The Daily Plate while you’re on the go. If you rock an iPhone, iPod Touch, or Blackberry, those apps are definitely the way to go if you want to track calories wherever you are.
But if you’re using a different web-enabled phone, you may be interested in learning more about option three, “TDP Mobile.” It lives at http://livestrong.com/m, and offers a slimmed-down version of The Daily Plate. All members can use the TDP Mobile to search for nutrition information from our database, and Gold members get bonus features: They can actually track, access Frequently Eaten Foods, and more.
With three mobile ways to get to LIVESTRONG.COM, you can carry the nutritional information for 500,000 foods and data on more than 1,000 physical activities in your pocket.
