The LIVESTRONG.COM Blog

Hi everyone!

You might have thought our team would take a break after last week’s round of fixes, but there’s no stopping the LIVESTRONG.COM crew! We rolled out another smattering of upgrades and fixes this week; here’s a sampling:

1. We’ve made LIVESTRONG Groups better than ever. They now sport an easier-to-read three-column layout. You can also post links to other sites and resources into your group entries with a really slick new tool that I think you’ll love. Groups also load much, much faster than ever before. Explore, and enjoy!

2. You might have already noted the new search bar in the header that we released last week. Now, we’ve refined search — especially “Member Search” — so that the results are even more accurate.

3. We’ve made several bug fixes on The Daily Plate. Some members were having issues viewing their weight charts; viewing date ranges wasn’t working properly. That should now be corrected. We’ve also implemented some new measures to cut down on new duplicates entering the database. And today, we’re introducing “Locked” food items. When we independently verify the accuracy of food data, we’ll mark the food as such and prevent it from being edited later. While most food items have a button to “Edit this item,” locked foods – like this one — don’t.

4. Beyond these changes, we’ve improved the layout of some articles, improved our video experience, added an “Experts” module to our homepage, and more. 

Take a look around the site to experience the changes, and let us know what you think!

Last night, we launched a brand new feature exclusively for The Daily Plate on LIVESTRONG.COM. The new feature was a popular member request, and we’re thrilled to announce it to you today:

You can now track foods on MyPlate by time (6:00pm), instead of just by our approximate mealtimes (Dinner). You can choose the hour during which you ate a given food, and we’ll chart it for you accordingly.

Our “old” mealtimes are still available, since many users prefer that approach. But if you’ve always wanted to be more specific about just when you ate something, now you can finally track it that way!

Take a look, and please let us know what you think…