The LIVESTRONG.COM Blog

A bunch of updates to share, so let’s get right to it!

1. You can now rearrange elements on your profile.
I, for example, love the Friends Feed, so I dragged mine higher up on my profile. I’ve also moved My Groups above my Friends List, because that’s more convenient for me. You can adjust the layout by clicking on the headers of profile modules and dragging them. Note that currently the top three modules are not movable.

2. Your last name is no longer required when editing your profile.
We thought we had this one fixed yesterday, but it still gave some members problems. Today, it is definitely fixed and working properly!

3. “What I Do Regularly” — a log of fitness activities you frequently track on MyPlate — is now working properly.
Most users weren’t having a problem, but if you’re a regular fitness tracker and you were affected, you will be thrilled to know that this is fixed now!

As always, we value your feedback — let us know what you think!

LIVESTRONG.COM launched to the world just yesterday, but we haven’t started relaxing just yet. The team here has been hard at work behind-the-scenes on a host of feature improvements and bug fixes. Here are some recent upgrades that went live today:

1. The water tracker on The Daily Plate’s MyPlate section no longer adds dozens (or hundreds!) of glasses on its own. Instead, it only adds glasses of water when you tell it to!
2. When you add a food to MyPlate, we now automagically highlight the “servings” field, so that you can immediately update how many servings of that food you ate. As an added bonus, if the food you tracked would be too far down on the page to see right away, we’ll actually bounce you down the page so that you can see it without needing to scroll.
3. Deleting fitness items from MyPlate now works as expected.
4. If you originally registered at The Daily Plate standalone site, your profile data should now by more accurately synced. (Some of you were missing friends from TDP.)
5. Your TDP Food Diary now has a new privacy setting: You can limit its readership to just your friends here on LIVESTRONG.COM.
6. You are no longer required to include your last name on your profile. Your privacy settings will let you dictate whether your name is shown on your profile at all.
7. The “Ideal Weight Calculator,” which was actually the “Laughably Inaccurate And Woefully Erroneous Calculator,” has been pulled from the site until it can be repaired. We apologize to those of you who used that calculator and saw its clearly incorrect results.

Your health is personal. One of our goals with LIVESTRONG.COM is to help you connect with other members of our community with similar medical histories — members on similar medicines, or with similar diseases, for example.

Still, we recognize that some members may prefer to keep their specific medical information private. We’ve revamped the preferences page to make it easy to choose exactly what elements you’re comfortable sharing with everyone, what you’d like to share just with your friends on the site, and what you’d like to keep completely private.

Your privacy is very important to us. It’s our hope that these new, clear controls will help our members feel comfortable knowing exactly what they are and aren’t sharing, and with whom.